By Emilie Gambade• 3 May 2021
The West Tunnel Blast Door, which weighs 25 tons and serves as an entrance to a former government relocation facility, also known as the bunker, is seen during a media tour at Greenbrier Resort July 14, 2006 in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia. The bunker, codenamed Project Greek Island and planned by the Eisenhower Administration, was a 112,000 square-foot shelter constructed beneath the Greenbrier Resort s West Virginia Wing, to serve as a relocation site for members of the U.S. Congress and associated staff in the event of a nuclear attack on the U.S. soil. The facility was built between 1958 and 1961 and was maintained in a state of operational readiness until the government terminated the lease with the resort in 1995. The bunker will be reopened for public tours on August 20 after a two-year-long renovation. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)
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In the UK, preppers are also purchasing survival equipment.
Speaking to Sky News, Justin Jones, sales director of UK Prepping Shop, announced sales have gone up by 487 percent in the last three months.
He said: I don t think people expected there to be empty shops. It s always been laughed at when preppers have talked about this in the past. It came true and now we ve got a nation of preppers.
Criminology lecturer at the University of Kent Michael Mills told Sky News that a declining faith in institutions was driving the purchase of survival equipment.
He said: Making sure that the individual or a small group can sustain themselves seems to be a bankable idea and bedrock of security in a world in which other sources of security seem to be on the way out or absent.