At first, Zora Schelbert, the chief operating officer and tour guide at the Sonnenberg nuclear bunker in Lucerne, Switzerland, wasn’t sure whether the requests she was receiving were a joke. With the rise of the peace movements in the 70s and 80s, however, more people began to question whether nuclear bunkers were necessary – or practical. One of the most enduring criticisms is whether bunkers in fact enable nuclear war: what’s to stop countries from using the nuclear option if it is, in fact, survivable? View image in fullscreen Visitors in the Sonnenberg nuclear bunker tunnels. The planning was exceptional, the engineering impressive; Swiss civil protection services thought of everything.
