

Narrator: Doomsday prepping isn't a new idea. Outdoors, you can build an earth-covered shelter, which affords the best protection against blasts, fire, radiation, and radioactive fallout. The project is just one example of success in the growing survival market.Īnnouncer: The basement box-type shelter is stronger, larger, and more comfortable. The idea was so popular that every unit sold before construction ended. Narrator: The infrastructure is designed to sustain 75 people for five years.
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Hall: What you really wanna do is make sure that people feel productive, so you're gonna need everyone to be working four-hour workdays, and every 30 days, people will rotate jobs so you don't have any single points of failure and everybody knows how to do all of the jobs there.
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Narrator: The team added a swimming pool, gym, rock climbing wall, movie theater, dog park, and more. Hall: You need to make life as normal as it can be because subconsciously, your brain keeps track of abnormal activities. Then, with the help of a consultant, the team developed a plan to deal with the human factors of off-grid living. They installed three redundant power supplies, three separate water sources and a water filtration system, aquaponic farming, and hydroponic food. Narrator: Hall's team spent nearly $20 million to turn the missile silo into a secure shelter for 12 families. Hall: We said, "Hey, if we're gonna build a high-end bunker, I'd hate to, like, need protection for two years and only have designed it for one and a half years." So we said, "What would we have to do to make this place capable of sustaining people indefinitely?" And that turned out to be quite a cost-driver. In 2008, Larry Hall bought the property for $300,000. Narrator: It's 15 stories deep with walls up to 9 feet thick that can withstand a direct nuclear impact. Larry Hall: It's not the luxury that drives the cost, it's the caliber of the infrastructure and the threats you're protecting against, and, most importantly, the duration that you can be off-grid for. Welcome to the $3 million doomsday-proof condo. But there's one in an undisclosed location north of Wichita, Kansas, that has taken on a new purpose.

Narrator: During the Cold War, the US government built numerous missile silos in secret locations across the country. Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders.
