Inside the luxury nuclear bunker stretching 15 floors below ground in Kansas designed to protect the mega-rich from a potential apocalypse
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The ‘Survival Condo’ is a luxury nuclear bunker designed to protect the mega-rich from a potential apocalypse. While some of the units have already been sold to members of the 1% hoping for a getaway plan should doomsday happen, there are still units in all three types of floor plans available, with prices starting at $1.5 million and going up to $4.5 million for a full-floor unit. Scroll through to see the incredible images.
A doorway into the nuclear bunker. The structure is 200 feet underground, in a secret location in the middle of Kansas – about 200 miles from Kansas City.
An underground floor plan of the bunker, which was built during the Cold War as a nuclear missile launch facility and is retrofitted with nine-foot-thick reinforced concrete walls. The bunker descends nine floors and is accessible by a high-speed elevator.
Now, it is guarded by security and surrounded by CCTV cameras and armored trucks and boasts bulletproof doors and tunnels.
As well as the price of buying a unit, owners must spend $5,000 USD a month to cover the living expenses – food, internet, electricity and water.
A bar area with a TV screen is pictured above. The communal areas are at the top levels, while the individual housing units sit below.
A communal area of the bunker features a pool table, plenty of TV screens and plush red furniture.
The nuclear bunker features a gym at the bottom of the 15 floors, complete with a sauna and steam room.
A swimming pool is featured in the communal area of the nuclear bunker.
The underground shelter, in Kansas, in America, started life as a Cold War missile silo. Entrepreneur Larry Hall bought it in 2008.
A running machine and exercise bike located in the bunker’s gym will be sure to keep wealthy residents fit and healthy in the event of a potential apocalypse.
The fortified condominium shelter features a shop, library, classroom, general store, cinema, swimming pool, rock climbing wall, and an aquaponics area to grow vegetables, and fish. Pictured: The library and seating area.
Founder Larry Hall said: ‘All of our people are self-made millionaires. They’re very successful: doctors, engineers, lawyers, international business people… almost all of them have children. And they’re concerned about the ‘what if” scenario.’
Pictured: A study area with a large white board and TV screen.
Pictured: A bedroom in one of the bunkers, which comes equipped with a quasi-scenic view from the ‘window’.
Poolside: The nuclear bunker features a dipping pool that is surrounded with a table and deckchairs and complete with wallpaper depicting a seaside view.
Rocks covered in moss line the pool to give residents more of a natural feel and to create the illusion of being by the beach.
The ‘Survival Condo’ control room is seen above. As well as the price of buying a unit, owners must spend $5,000 a month to cover the living expenses.
Pictured: A private en-suite bathroom leading off from one of the bedrooms.
Pictured: One of the shelter’s many tunnels.
Pictured: A canteen area inside the shelter.
A bunk bed is pictured in one of the shelter’s rooms next to a fake window depicting a field with a wind turbine.
The entrance to the bunker, which stretches a whopping fifteen floors below ground and features private units as well as communal areas.