We attended the Story of Berlin exhibit, including a trip to a nuclear shelter, which was too funny. They have these scattered under the city, but they'd fit only a fraction of the population, packed in like sardines on bunked cots. I guess you hope a lot of people get killed by the explosions. The tour guide explained how the oxygen levels, controlled in a little booth, are kept just low enough to keep everyone lethargic and sedated and preferably confined to their cots, because there ain't much room to walk around and even less to do. Everything sounded completely silly and ineffectual, so that, if you'd been on the tour, you'd probably not bother to go to one in a nuclear attack. Steve's theory is they're really perfect, and these discouraging tours are the government's ploy to keep the shelters free for themselves in case of an emergency.
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