On the back cover of this booklet a box like this appears:Įntered in the space labeled Basement 'PF' are two numbers which tell you the fallout protection that was calculated for the 'center' of your basement and the 'best corner' of your basement. But first of all, because your home has a basement you already have some fallout protection. It will tell you what radioactive fallout is and how you can improve your protection against it if this country were ever attacked with nuclear weapons. In principle, they are now only required for new buildings with 38 rooms or more.This booklet is about fallout protection. Bunkers either have to be built underneath homes and blocks of flats, or the building owner has to pay the local authorities for a spot in a public shelter.įor around 20 years, shelters have no longer had to be built in new houses. Every person in the country must have a spot in a bunker in case of some kind of catastrophe.

Switzerland has had a unique ‘shelters for all’ policy since 1963, at the height of the Cold War. In addition, it was felt that there were too many of these small shelters for the civil defence force to manage in case of an emergency. However, these units are no longer manufactured and the cost of retrofitting the bunkers outweighs the benefits, according to the document. The ventilation units for such installations are over four decades old and have to be changed. The unpublished “Protective Structures Concept” of the Federal Office for Civil Protection states that private bunkers with fewer than seven spaces should be abolished. + How Switzerland is preparing for nuclear escalation However, Swiss public broadcaster SRF revealed External link on Friday that the federal government and cantons would like to phase them out due to the high cost of retrofitting them to remain operational. Homeowners are required to keep them available for emergencies as part of the country’s civil protection strategy. Around 100,000 such single-home emergency air-raid shelters exist in the country.

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