This short collection of photographs shows bomb shelters from around the world. Most of them are from the Cold War, but World War Two shelters are featured as well. The builders are mostly governments but include Utah Mormons and Texas cults. The individual photos are competent enough, but it’s the range that’s striking.
It’s odd to reflect that when I, an admittedly odd kid, was collecting fallout shelter brochures at the Minnesota State Fair in the 60′s, my Russian contemporaries in Moscow were expecting to have to dash to the basements of their apartment blocks, almost every one of which incorporated a bomb shelter. We’ve built a strange and fearful world.