Bunker makers say business is booming — but there's a reason governments left bomb shelters behind | CBC News

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Amid daily scenes of devastation in Ukraine, one sector is cashing in on rising fears of war: the world's manufacturers of backyard bunkers.

A showroom bunker at Vivos Survival Shelters' xPoint facility in South Dakota. Bunker makers say business is booming as war rages in Ukraine.

Google Trends data shows searches for "bunker" spiking to levels that haven't been seen since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. Vivos Europa One, a luxury bunker project inside a former East German government bunker, is still not fit for habitation, but tunnels are being sold for nearly $3 million a piece.in Kansas was able to sell out its 75 units for $1.9 million and up.

But the increasing number of privatized facilities like Vivos Europa One points to another reality that bunker makers may be more hesitant to acknowledge: governments long ago gave up on bunkering down. A tunnel fork inside Vivos Europa One. Many governments abandoned bunker construction when faced with the destructive power of hydrogen bombs.According to Luke Bennett, a researcher of Britain's history of civil defence, H-bomb tests marked a fundamental shift.

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