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“How to Survive a Nuclear Blast”, in the Wired How-To Wiki, is an excellent primer. For historical background, we strongly recommend Eugene P. Wigner’s Who Speaks for Civil Defense?, published in 1968, which provides an excellent start in explaining why the United States, notwithstanding its public commitments to the contrary, never bult adsequate blast or fallout shelters.

In “How Much Bunker Could Tom Cruise Get for $10 Million?,” Joel Johnson of Boing Boing [singlepic=120,320,240,,left] Interviews, Leonard Henriksen, maker of high-end shelters:

While Tom Cruise may not be building a bunker under his Telluride estate—his spokespeople have denied it—it got me thinking: How much underground bunker could one get for $10 million?

Before he put his mind to designing underground survival shelters, Leonard Henrikson, a gentle Oregonian proud of his Swedish descent, built presses for radioactive waste for the government. But after 9/11, there was again a market for underground survival bunkers. “You couldn’t build them fast enough,” Henrikson told me.