This content was published on Sep 1, 2016What's it like to go inside what was once the biggest civilian bunker in the world? The forgotten underground world of Swiss bunkers But there is a more simple reason: it is a legal requirement. The Swiss do in fact spend more than almost any other nation (more than 20 per cent of their budget) to insure themselves against everything and everyone. And there is probably some truth in that assessment. These Swiss! Paranoid and obsessed with security, our friend must have thought. Thanks to the thick armoured door and the ventilation system, with anti-gas filter, if the worst came to the worst, the 25 or so tenants of our block could survive even a nuclear strike. Our friend has simply stumbled upon our fallout shelter. He has never been in the basement of a Swiss home.Ĭellar? Well, the room is half full of bottles of wine, old books, a freezer, unwanted clothes. "Why on earth have you got a reinforced steel door in your cellar?" The amazement of a visiting Italian friend is easy to understand. Deutsch (de) Kein Land baut mehr Bunker als die Schweiz.
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