We’re going to be doing more in-depth shelter guides in future, but this is just a quick overview of basic choices out there. If you live in the land of the free, there are plenty of contractors happy to offer advice and take your money for digging a large hole, reinforcing it with concrete, and kitting it out with filtration units and a self contained toilet, most of these are in kit form, then we get into serious money. Here’s a quick overview…

Make your own, the UK Home Office even had a handy little reference guide on domestic nuclear shelters ranging from your basic dirt covered hole, to a purpose built concrete bunker.

www.disastershelters.net offer shelters ranging from $41,950 and up, they can provide a range of blast doors, air filtration systems and other accessories.

www.americanbombshelter.com has a very low cost $16,000 kit although you’ll probably be looking at more like $30,000 by the time construction is complete.

http://www.bomb-shelter.net/ is a off-the shelf solution by Radius Defence. The shelters are designed to be buried in the ground, and their product range consists of smaller 1 and 2 man shelters to ones big enough to house many families. starting from £41,000 to over $2 Million for a shelter than can support 50 – 200 people.

Of course if you’re talking really long term survival and have a cool $1.5 million to spend then you could do worse than get yourself a self-contained climate protection complex from survivalcentre.com they start with a basic $59,995 central module and you can build on from there. They can even arrive fully stocked.