President Donald Trump's escalating nuclear war tensions with North Korea have created a boom market for radiation fallout shelters, The Boston Globereports Tuesday.
"Companies that manufacture private fallout shelters report that sales have doubled since August, when President Trump promised to unleash 'fire and fury' on North Korea if it threatened the United States or its allies," The Globe explained.
“If you see the flash of light and you see the mushroom cloud, the good news is you’re not dead, and you probably have 10 to 15 minutes to get somewhere,” noted Jeff Schlegelmilch, the deputy director of the National Center for Disaster Preparedness at Columbia University.
“The concept of appropriate shelter is not only useful, it could save tens of thousands, and even hundreds of thousands, of lives by convincing people to shelter appropriately rather than evacuate when all this fallout is coming down,” Schlegelmilch said.
NORAD Shelter Systems LLC in Texas sells shelters ranging from $200,000 to $2 million.
“Since Trump got in office, we’ve doubled our sales and then, when North Korea kicked in, it’s just gone up even more,” said Walton McCarthy, principal engineer at NORAD Shelter Systems.
Customers explain to McCarthy that “they’re fearful that Donald Trump doesn’t have the skill to defuse anything.”
“I have liberals buying shelters and I have conservatives buying shelters, and it wasn’t like that until six months ago," explained Ron Hubbard, the owner of Atlas Survival Shelters in California.
Hubbard expects to install 1,000 fallout shelters in 2018.
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