At RES we do not feel that building a bunker is the best use of your resources. To understand why we feel strongly about this, you must differentiate between a bunker and a fallout shelter or safe room. A bunker is specifically designed to protect against military ordinance, and bunkers being built today in America are often designed to offer some degree of protection against a nuclear strike. On the other hand, a fallout shelter is designed to protect against other risks from nuclear attacks and a safe room is designed to mitigate risk from attacks from raiders or other malicious actors. While we do not recommend a bunker, we are very enthusiastic about safe rooms and fallout shelters.
Central to our philosophy is the need to be able to stockpile resources. These resources include your land and your home. If you live in an area where you may have to protect against a nuclear blast it is going to be very difficult to protect either of these. A bunker may save you and your family from a nuclear blast, but what will you do after the fallout has settled and you emerge from your bunker? You will have no vehicle, and even if you could escape the blast zone, where would you go and how would you survive?
A bunker might make sense if you have a home in a metropolitan area that might be targeted during a nuclear attack, and you suspect that you might not be able to leave town when we begin advising you that risk levels are increasing for nuclear attack—a service we offer. In this case, you may need a small bunker and fallout shelter to survive, but you will need extensive plans for extraction once the fallout has settled, and you will still need a resilient estate where you can be extracted to after you exit your fallout shelter. For most people this isn’t practical, and is just a very cumbersome step on top of an already extensive SPAR planning process.