Where Are The Bomb Shelters?

 

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In the fifties and sixties the threat of nuclear war drove the US to install thousands of ballistic missiles all over the US, keep loaded B-52s on perpetual standby, base fighter-interceptor aircraft world-wide and monitor millions of square miles of air space with sophisticated radar to counter the threat of being taken over by the Godless Commies. 

There was also a country-wide effort to survive any possible nuclear war by the construction of private "bomb shelters", hardened sanctuaries stocked with water and food that would allow far-sighted citizens to emerge into the post-atomic landscape and rebuild the great and wonderful US.

But there never was a nuclear armageddon and normal folk failed to keep track of the stored water and soda crackers that were never needed.

Now, some 50 years later, if the bomb shelter fixation of the cold war zenith made any sense then, it certainly does now, with crazy eastern Europeans talking about bombing the world 12,000 years into the past and many more nations possessing the ultimate weapon.  Yet we hear nothing about a rush order bomb shelter program for ordinary Yankees. 

The US is spending billions of dollars to massage the ego of a millionaire Ukrainian entertainer who's making olive drab T-shirts a fashion statement but not a centavo on subsidies for overhead protection of American children and grandmothers. Why is this the case?

Do Victoria Nuland and Robert Kagan know something that the rest of us do not? Are they convinced that a proxy war against Putin can't result in any real harm to the US? Or are they willing to accept a serious amount of death and disaster in exchange for world-wide hegemony? After all, the Japanese quickly got over their August 6, 1945 lumps and started selling motorcycles and then cars all over the place. A quick rebuild and Uncle Sam will be able to put the Chinese in their place, too. 

The wealthy already have their survival spots set up for a possible conflagration. They'll probably be better off without the underlings anyway.