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2006-08-01 China-Japan-Koreas

China builds huge nuclear bunker in Shanghai?

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Posted by Seafarious 2006-08-01 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Wonder what the 'party' membership is in Shanghai? At a guess, I'd say 200K.

Posted by DMFD 2006-08-01 00:43|| 2006-08-01 00:43|| Front Page Top

#2 Maybe a "fallout lottery"?

Posted by newc">newc 2006-08-01 01:03|| 2006-08-01 01:03|| Front Page Top

#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|| http://timurileng.blogspot.com]">[http://timurileng.blogspot.com] 2006-08-01 03:29|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2006-08-01 06:41|| Front Page Top

#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">Laurence of the Rats 2006-08-01 10:36|| 2006-08-01 10:36|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2006-08-01 10:42|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2006-08-01 11:17|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2006-08-01 11:22|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2006-08-01 11:38|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2006-08-01 12:12|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2006-08-01 13:38|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2006-08-01 14:30|| Front Page Top

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