Forbes -
5 Nov 2013 18:54

Switzerland is famous for its secretive banks, lederhosen, and noisy cuckoo clocks. But during the Cold War the Swiss were also notorious for building enough fallout shelters to house the entire population, out of panic from the threat of nuclear annihilation. Since the collapse of communism many of the estimated 7,000 bunkers fell into misuse, relics of the atomic age. Recently, though, the Swiss government decided to allow private firms to buy or rent some of the shelters.
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