Langport Nuclear Bomb Shelter

Fallout or survival shelters are designed to shield the occupant from the debris and radioactive fallout of a nuclear attack. TV reporter Mike Whitmarsh travels to Langport in Somerset to look at the Mark II Nuclear Bomb Shelter from Corp Protection Ltd. The Mark II is designed in Switzerland will cost you three and a half thousand pounds and its built in manual life support system would ease the monotony of daily living. The nuclear threat was real.

In the 1980s the second cold war was a nuclear arms race between the Kremlin and the United States. Escalated by US President Ronald Reagan when he refused to negotiate with the Soviet Union over nuclear proliferation, his Strategic Defence Initiative increased US investment in nuclear arms and the proposed installation of missiles on UK soil under the then Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) and the Women’s Camp at Greenham Common against the US nuclear missile defence system characterised the eighties. Reagan eventually agreed with new Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev on nuclear arms reduction leading later to Strategic Arms Reduction Treaties.