This plan relies on being underground and then covering the shelter with lots and lots of dirt to help attenuate radiation. The simple excavated earthen shelter is sufficient for providing protection from a nuclear blast and the resulting fallout that is sure to follow. Sometimes the most basic plans are the best for our purposes. It is entirely possible, and perhaps cheaper than you think, to build a functional fallout shelter on your very own property, and maybe even in your home. It makes total sense then that fallout shelters are once again a topic on the minds of everyone.īut you don’t need to be a mega-millionaire or a VIP to have access to a hardened underground bunker to keep yourself safe. With the way the world is going, there are many people in society that are feeling the chill brought on by the growing shadow of a nuclear war.Īlthough it is difficult, maybe even impossible to predict all ends, it is not difficult to imagine how one thing could lead to another concerning international conflict that would end with the exchange of tactical and then strategic nuclear weapons.