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China-Japan-Koreas
China builds huge nuclear bunker in Shanghai?
2006-08-01
Shanghai: A massive bunker complex capable of sheltering 200,000 people from a nuclear attack has been built, a local newspaper has reported. The 970,000sq ft complex has water, electricity, lighting, ventilation and protective doors, and connects to shopping centres, office blocks, apartment buildings and the subway system via 15 tunnels.
Um. Okay. Alrighty then. WTF???
Seeing as Shanghai has 14 million people, and the metro area likely double that, they're going to save 200k people? Hmmm, I think somehow drawing lots isn't what they have in mind.
Posted by:Seafarious

#12  WTF? That is only 5 sq ft per person, imagine a square of 2'3" by 2' 3". You could barely even sit down in it! I know Chinese are a little smaller than overfed Americans (such as myself), but this just doesn't sound reasonable at all!
Posted by: Whinemp Unogum4891   2006-08-01 14:30  

#11  ...they aren't antiAmerican, but they are distinctly more Chinese-proud than their counterparts of a decade ago were.

Yeah, I've worked with Chinese who come across the same way. They don't bad-mouth the USA, but the nationalism sure came out when I mentioned Tibet.

I wouldn't even touch Formosa Taiwan after that exchange.
Posted by: Xbalanke   2006-08-01 13:38  

#10  Seeing as Shanghai has 14 million people, and the metro area likely double that, they're going to save 200k people? Hmmm, I think somehow drawing lots isn't what they have in mind.

Sounds like they have a mine shaft gap.
Posted by: SLO Jim   2006-08-01 12:12  

#9  This announcement is as much about Chinese nationalism rising as anything. I know a bunch of Chinese grad students studying computer science and such here - they aren't antiAmerican, but they are distinctly more Chinese-proud than their counterparts of a decade ago were.
Posted by: lotp   2006-08-01 11:38  

#8  For real bunker thrills visit the Berliner Unterwelten society.

http://www.berliner-unterwelten.de/en/002/002.htm
Posted by: Besoeker   2006-08-01 11:22  

#7  Gee, I wonder what it would be like to be in a bunker with 199,999 people, when upriver the Three Gorges dam broke?

Map of Shanghai showing the river:

http://tinyurl.com/gwyyr
Posted by: Anonymoose   2006-08-01 11:17  

#6  How long would it take to move 200K people into it? Somehow I don't think within a 30 miniute 'warning' time period.
Posted by: CrazyFool   2006-08-01 10:42  

#5  Do they have a subway? If so, would 200k be about the amount of people you could stuff in their?
Posted by: Laurence of the Rats   2006-08-01 10:36  

#4  You sure this isn't a dual-use underground shopping center? That's what it sounds like.
Posted by: gromky   2006-08-01 06:41  

#3  My feeling is that it won't survive a direct hit. And a facility that big can easily be targeted. Sounds like Massachusett's Big Dig, but bigger by some exponential factor. Be nice to get the contract, since there's all kinds of ways to cut corners (vs the official bid) on materials in a structure that will only be tested in the event of a nuclear war (i.e. never). Besides, if there's a nuclear war, what else can the government do to you?
Posted by: Zhang Fei   2006-08-01 03:29  

#2  Maybe a "fallout lottery"?
Posted by: newc   2006-08-01 01:03  

#1  Wonder what the 'party' membership is in Shanghai? At a guess, I'd say 200K.
Posted by: DMFD   2006-08-01 00:43  

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