Interview with a bunker builder

Over at Boing Boing Gadgets, intrepid reporter Joel Johnson profiles Len Henrikson who designs safe rooms and bomb shelters. His firm, American Bomb Shelter, sells kits so you can put together your own underground bunker. From Joel's article:

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Before he put his mind to designing underground survival shelters, Leonard Henrikson, a gentle Oregonian proud of his Swedish descent, built presses for radioactive waste for the government. But after 9/11, there was again a market for underground survival bunkers. "You couldn't build them fast enough," Henrikson told me.

Henrikson is quick to qualify that he wasn't pitching slapdash shelters up to make a quick buck. "I worked on our shelter design and engineering off and on for six months." He later sold some of his NBC filtration systems–that's "Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical"–to various governments.

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