FOX News: Some like it… underground. ‘Luxury bomb shelters’ for future troubles

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A doomsday bunker company based in Dallas, Texas, has seen a recent increase in clients, noting that many Americans are worried about social unrest today, FOX News reports.

Ron Hubbard, owner of Atlas Survival Shelters, told Fox News Digital in a phone interview that almost half of Americans think the U.S. could see a civil war.

Atlas Survival Shelters manufactures different types of survival shelters used to protect people "in case of a pandemic outbreak, civil unrest, malicious mobs, and biological nuclear fallout or EMP (electromagnetic pulse) attacks from homegrown terrorists or other nations," the company's website says.

Thirteen percent of Americans feel a civil war is "very likely" — with an additional 34% saying it is "likely," according to a Marist National Poll done in May.

"Business is booming right now. We do bunkers anywhere from a million dollars to as low as $20,000. Some of our bunkers are even more than a million," said Hubbard.

The average bunker from Atlas Survival Shelters sells for about $400,000, with nine rooms.

"On average, most of the bunkers we do are about half a million dollars, because the kind of clientele that's buying bunkers right now are not poor."

The average bunker has about nine rooms — and is "turnkey."

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Hubbard said that on average, he sells at least one bunker per day and his phone rings off the hook.

He said his bunkers are not like others out there with modern features catering to the lifestyles of the rich and famous.

"The interiors of my bunkers look like houses" and anyone who saw them would think they were inside a hotel room, said Hubbard.

"They want to be in something that feels like a luxury bomb shelter."

"This is why I work for a lot of high-end clients. Because they realize they don't want to suffer and be in a metal box. They want to be in something that feels like a luxury bomb shelter."

In addition to a factory in Dallas, Atlas Survival Shelters also has one in Poland that caters to European clients.

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