There are properties available at every price point, ranging from $25,000 up into the millions, and they run the gamut from basic survivalist co-op apartments to vast underground former military compounds left over from the Cold War. With the idea that it may be high time to prepare for the worst, we've rounded up a selection of end-of-days bunkers on the market, potentially enabling you to survive annihilation and help carry on the torch for humanity. In other words, the doomsday 'preppers' you may have previously viewed as paranoid might just be onto something.

presidential election of Donald Trump, who has 'made disturbing comments about the use and proliferation of nuclear weapons and expressed disbelief in the overwhelming scientific consensus on climate change.'

In particular, scientists cited serious concern about the U.S. The newest Doomsday Clock was set at 2.5 minutes to midnight-the closest we've been to the apocalypse since the early 1980s-partly because of the 'rise in strident nationalism worldwide,' the group stated. That's considered a very high-risk state of affairs-much worse than 2010 (six minutes to midnight) or the end of the Cold War circa 1991 (17 minutes to midnight).īut scientists are even more worried in 2017. That's the assessment of the The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, which regularly gauges how near civilization is to global catastrophe with something it calls the Doomsday Clock.īased on factors like the proliferation of nuclear weapons, global political tensions, and unchecked climate change, scientists said the symbolic clock was poised at three minutes to 'midnight,' a.k.a. The world has inched a little closer to total annihilation.

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