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Thanks to a 1963 law, Switzerland is already ahead of neighbors like Germany. Each of its 9 million residents, including foreigners and refugees, is guaranteed a spot in a bunker to protect them ...
Switzerland has had a unique ‘shelters for all’ policy since 1963, at the height of the Cold War. Every person in the country must have a spot in a bunker in case of some kind of catastrophe.
It’s jacket weather outside, but miles inside the Swiss Alps it’s balmy, thanks to heat from the planet’s core. Wearing a red hard hat and carrying a backpack with an emergency oxygen tank ...
The London surveyors Griffiths Eccles recently got in touch about their latest big-ticket instruction: a decommissioned military nuclear bunker in the Swiss mountains, suited for “hyper-secure ...
Here, Alex Lussi of Swiss mushroom producer Gotthard-Pilze picks a shiitake mushroom inside a former ammunition bunker near the town of Erstfeld. At the fort of Furggels near the village of St ...
From the Swiss Alps to New Zealand’s rugged landscapes and the bustling cities of Latin America, crypto bunkers are emerging as fortresses for the digital age. These facilities aim to protect ...
Switzerland is expected to offer to accept 4,000 to 5,000 refugees who have entered the European Union largely from the wartorn regions of Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan. Switzerland launched a national ...