There are many advantages to cave living even in an emergency situation. I have made a list of the largest ones, state by state for your reference. There is an extensive network of caves all across the USA. The shelter has become known as the ‘City of Victory’ and is a tourist attraction. Kaysone Phomvihane who was the leader of the communist movement led his people to limestone caves in the craggy mountains at the Vietnam boarder. This is equal to a laneload of bombs every 8 minutes, 24 hrs. 270Million cluster bombs, 210 million more than Iraq in 1991, 19 COMBINED! 7 million tons of bombs, more than twice the amount dropped in Europe and Asia in WWII. Unbelievably in these years the USA dropped more bombs than any other time in the history of war. Salt mines are your best option because they are very spacious with large rooms rather than narrow, dark, high humidity tunnels like you see in mines! Cavesįrom 1964-1973 the USA and CIA conducted a secret war to support the Royal Laos Government and to stop the communist incursion by dropping bombs on then communist Lagos and northern Vietnam. So I’m going to start with… …The Underground Salt Mines: Other cities like Houston and Cleveland (1400 feet below) are also situated over salt mines.

The salt was left behind and formed the massive deposits that we mine today.ĭetroit isn’t the only city with a salt mine below it. The Michigan basin and the great lakes area (since there are also huge salt mines in Canada), used to be part of a sea which sank into the earth. The salt mine was used to mine table salt, but with the decline in salt prices the mine is now used to mine road salt for winter.

It’s the case in Detroit, where just 1200 Feet below there is a salt mine that can easily shelter the entire population of Detroit! Actually, it can shelter over 5 million people. Sometimes the shelter is so close that is right below your feet. But they will protect you only from the nuclear blast and the initial radiation burst. Keep in mind that these bunkers are all naturally EMP hardened.

Only a handful of preppers can afford a $ 70k nuclear bunker.īut if you think about it, there are a lot of natural nuclear shelters in the US that are absolutely free.Īll you need to do is to identify the closest one to your home and maybe include it into your bug out plan in case a nuclear war is looming (or an asteroid impact).

Closest nuclear fallout shelter to me