New York magazine ran a story on Thursday reporting that the bomb shelter business is booming -- so to speak -- as Americans lose faith in our leaders' ability to avert nuclear war.
And while nonproliferation activist Jeffrey Lewis told the San Francisco Chronicle that in the world after a nuclear attack that "the survivors would envy the dead" and wish they'd died as well, plenty of people, apparently, are shelling over their hard-earned dollars to build concrete-reinforced, windowless underground rooms.
Twitter users responded with a mix of gallows humor and genuine horror that the specter of nuclear annihilation could be returning to haunt the world again.