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by shaggie76 653 days ago
When I visited New York on vacation I was delighted to spot the fallout-shelter signs posted around the city and it makes wonder what what extent economies of scale make communal shelters advantageous as opposed to every family fending for themselves.
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The article does briefly mention a strong example of this in Switzerland:

> "Several European governments considered it their responsibility to provide safe hiding places for their citizens. No nation took this more seriously than Switzerland. In the nineteen-sixties, the country mandated the construction of shelter space for every inhabitant; today there are roughly nine million bunker spots for a population of 8.8 million—enough for some refugees to bring a plus-one."