Shelter and Bunker Construction


A military bunker is a hardened shelter, often buried partly or fully underground, designed to protect the inhabitants from falling bombs or other attacks. They were used extensively in World War I, World War II, and the Cold War for weapons facilities, command & control centers, and stores (e.g., for nuclear war).

 

A blast shelter is a place where people can go to protect themselves from bomb blasts. It differs from a fallout shelter, in that its main purpose is to protect from shock waves and over pressure, instead of from radioactive precipitation, as a fallout shelter does. It is also possible for a shelter to protect from both blast and fallout.

 

These plans, studies and reports comprehesively cover the preparation, design and construction of effective and protective “backyard” nuclear fallout and blast shelters. All of these handbooks are aimed at the “home” reader.


Deeply Buried Facilities: Implications for Military Operations

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Deeply Buried Facilities: Implications for Military Operations

The existence of deeply buried Underground facilities has emerged as one of the more difficult operational challenges to confront U.S. military forces in the twenty–frst century While these types of facilities are not new, they are signiScant when one considers the proliferation of nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons.

The problem is that deeply buried facilities can be used by rogue governments to manufacture and store weapons of mass destruction (WMD), as well as house the critical command and control and governmental functions that are central to the successful prosecution of a war It is unfortunate that, with the exception of nuclear … Continue Reading

Expedient Shelter Construction and Occupancy Experiments

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Expedient Shelter Construction and Occupancy Experiments

This report strongly indicates teh practicality of tens of millions of Americans evacuating into rural areas and building and occupying high–protection–factor expident shelters during an escalating international crisis. This concept was successfully tested by untrained families who built expedient shelters during winter in Colorado, summer in Utah, and spring in Florida. Their efforts are presented in this report primarily by the captioned photographs showing these typical American families evacuating their homes, driving to rural, shelter building sites, and then, with hand tools, constructing their shelters.

These average, mostly urban, American families were guided only by step–by–step, well illustrated, written instructions given … Continue Reading