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    amazingmao: Ah, a Chinese version of Vault 101 These will make fine reference for making Fallout: Chinese version more »
    5AMfrenchtoast: Creepy as FUCK. more »
    Dr Emilio Lizardo: Sure it could have held six million people...for several hours, stacked like cord wood. then the air would have given out. Hey! the air would give o... more »
    fatetwister64: But they dug too deep . . . more »
    CarrerCrytharis: DEEP CROWWWWWW! more »
    winshape: Would this be the opposite of "Rapture"? Instead focusing on the ideals of Objectivism, it adheres to the principles of Communism. Luckily, they did... more »
    gorehound: looks like a great teen drug takin party spot. more »
    minivolt: I visited the underground city 7 years ago. It was a guided tour, and what we saw was much more tourist-friendly. The place was cleaner, and I could... more »
    ManchuCandidate: It didn't help that Mao underestimated the destructive power of Soviet warheads (the Sovs compensated their less accurate warheads with bigger destruc... more »
    crashedpc - Haifisch: ... jeez, Dixia Cheng literally translates to "Underground City". I thought we Chinese people were supposed to have more flowery terms for these kinds... more »
    Arthur Smith: I want to point out that photos 1, 8 and 10 are of areas still today inhabited by people, according to the article. And here I was thinking it was ha... more »
    myrlin: This needs to be a horror movie or video game with a horror movie made to be based off it which will be based off of the novel that will be written ab... more »
    RavenNemain: This reminds me of the part in World War Z with the speculation about what happened to North Korea. I love when real life is sci-fi. more »
    BadUncle: Nothing dank or depressing here. more »
    TheLostVikings R.O.A.C.H.: Bobby's shelter from Supernatural would've kicked the collective asses of all these shelters put together. more »
  • #doomsdayvault

    The City-Sized Nuclear Bunker Chairman Mao Built

    In 1969, Chairman Mao began work on a giant bunker beneath the city of Beijing to house the city's population in the event of a nuclear attack. The underground city was never operational, but the tunnels and facilities still remain. More »
  • #bombshelters

    Bomb Shelter Decor for Post-Nuclear Living

    In the days of duck-and-cover drills and atomic anxiety, many families bought space in bomb shelters, stocking and decorating their possible nuclear homes. Richard Ross's photographs capture the abandoned shelters and what some families planned to take to the apocalypse. More »
  • #foundfootage

    An Underground Volcano Symbolizes Our Hobbesian Doom

    I kind of love this sequence from 1951's The Unknown World, where a scientist decides to die by underground volcano, because the human race will just self-destruct anyway. It's nakedly political, and dementedly awesome.