VIDEO: Japan’s Doomsday Preppers Are Buying $19,000 Bomb Shelters

Japan’s Doomsday Preppers Are Buying $19,000 Bomb Shelters

North Korea’s missile launch sends demand surging.

A man stands in the doorway of a Vivos xPoint shelter in South Dakota. SOURCE: VIVOS

By Justin Mattingly 2017년 7월 25일 오후 6:00 GMT+9

Business has never been better at Atlas Survival Shelters, which ships bunkers to customers around the world from its U.S. factories. Among the best sellers: the BombNado, with a starting price of $18,999.

The popularity of the company’s doomsday fortifications is no surprise, considering the state of the world in general and, specifically, Kim Jong-Un’s pursuit of a missile that can hit the continental U.S. Curiously, though, the most furious surge of interest isn’t in America but Japan, a country that’s long been within North Korea’s striking distance.

The Vivos xPoint shelters were originally built by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in the mid-20th century, but have since been repurposed.SOURCE: VIVOS

“Japan’s going hog wild right now,” said Ron Hubbard, owner of Atlas Survival. The Montebello, California-based company makes about a dozen different underground refuge models intended to be inhabitable for six months to a year, some outfitted with escape tunnels, decontamination rooms and bulletproof hatches.

While the Japanese have viewed North Korea as a menace for decades, the rogue regime’s July 4 launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile raised the level of alarm among preppers, as some people serious about emergency preparedness call themselves. Japan has its own small bunker-making sector, but the U.S., unique in its abundance of survivalist networks, is ground zero for get-ready-for-Armageddon businesses.

Left: An Atlas bunker is lowered into the ground. The shelters come with a watertight door that has a wheel handle. | Right: A blast hatch on an Atlas bunker serves as the primary entrance. The staircase to the main bunker descends at a 30-degree angle to deflect gamma radiation.SOURCE: RON HUBBARD, ATLAS SURVIVAL SHELTERS

Like Atlas Survival, underground-shelter manufacturer Rising S Co. in Murchison, Texas, has been inundated. Inquiries about its steel-clad products have doubled in the past three weeks, and 80 percent have come from Japan, said General Manager Gary Lynch.

The company website lays out the many options — a decontamination area, a fitness center, a swimming pool, a gun range, a game room with pool tables, a garage for your Porsche. The Aristocrat, big enough to sleep more than 50 and delivered with a bowling alley, is listed at $8.35 million.

North Korea is behind the fresh interest, Lynch said. “It’s really not a new threat, it’s just something the media and people are paying attention to.”

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-07-25/bomb-shelter-sales-are-booming-after-north-korea-s-icbm-launch

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