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CNN's Nic Robertson tours an underground bunker in Helsinki, Finland, housed in a parking garage. The Finnish capital's bunkers can shelter more than 900,000 people.
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There's been a lot of hand wringing across the front pages in recent months here in Sweden about our own equivalent of these underground bunkers, in light of the recent awakening of Europe's belicose neighbour.
Why the hand-wringing, are they not as large, or in as good condition as Finland's, or is it something else?
Authorities are suddenly having to confess to a recently interested set of voters that we may not have the capacity to store them all underground before the hypothetical bombs start falling.
Stockholm has been, at varying times over the last ten years, one of the fastest growing cities in Europe. The pace of matching bunker capacity up with that kind of growth simply hasn't happened. Probably couldn't even have, to be honest.
There's suddenly a lot of finger pointing, at lots of different parties, including even architects who haven't been designing them into their recent new builds.
It has given rise to some rather amusing articles though, where people venture into their local bunker for the first time in twenty years to find it isn't quite up to snuff. 🙃