Underneath the streets of Beijing, there are over a million people who live in nuclear bunkers.
A Million People Live in These Underground Nuclear Bunkers In the late ’60s and ‘70s, anticipating the devastation of a Cold War-nuclear fallout, Chairman Mao directed Chinese cities to construct apartments with bomb shelters capable of withstanding the blast of a nuclear bomb. In Beijing alone, roughly 10,000 bunkers were promptly constructed. But when China […]