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The Survival Condo Project is a luxury condo complex
housed in a former underground missile silo near Concordia, in Kansas,
in the US. Located 15 stories below ground, it was designed to
comfortably survive any apocalypse such as global health pandemics,
cataclysmic weather, and terror attack, including a nuclear one.
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The missile silo was originally built by the U.S. Army Corps of
Engineers in the 1960’s for the Atlas “F” missile, and there were 72 of
them around the country. The walls of the silo, constructed out of
epoxy-hardened concrete, are 9 feet thick and designed to survive a
direct nuclear strike. The dome structure that covers the silo cap can
withstand winds in excess of 500 mph.
The survival condos are designed to hold up to 70 people and have enough
resources to keep them alive for years, as they wait for the dust to
settle. A single condo in nearly 2,000-square-foot in size and cost
anywhere from $1.5 to $3 million. |
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Larry Hall, the brainchild behind the project, says that the condos are
already sold out, but Mr Hall is currently working on a second.
The condos are equipped with a number of modern amenities: flat-screen
TVs, pools, theater, workout area, classrooms and library, and a minor
surgery center. Each residential unit is provisioned with a five-year
supply of freeze-dried and dehydrated survival food per person.
In addition, they have a hydroponic garden where they plan to grow 70
varieties of fruits and vegetables and there’s a fish farm where they’ll
raise tilapia. |
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The air supply for the entire facility is filtered by Nuclear,
Biological, and Chemical (NBC) filters and the physical air intakes are
protected by blast valves that prevent an overpressure air wave created
by a nearby explosion from entering the facility and killing those
inside.
Power is provided by the local electric grid, with a backup large wind
turbine, and a diesel generator, while water is provided from redundant
sources and purified for consumption.
On the security aspect, the facility has a military grade security
system that includes infrared cameras, proximity sensors, microphones,
trip sensors, and passive detectors. |
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Numerous levels of blast doors designed to withstand sizable explosives
protect the facility’s entrance.
Incidentally, the Survival Condo Project is not the only one of its
kind. Elsewhere around the United States, privately owned bunkers in
decommissioned military sites are creeping up as a new breed of wealthy
survivalist are emerging.
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