Who said you can’t ride out the apocalypse in style? An entrepreneur based in Denver is offering wealthy but jittery home buyers a chance to make part of an abandoned missile silo their new home sweet home.
Larry Hall, a former software engineer who bought his 174-foot-deep hole in the ground from the government for $300,000 in 2008, plans to convert it to calamity-proof condos by 2013. The silo is one of 72 built across the country to deter a Soviet attack during the Cold War. Tucked into an empty stretch of rural Kansas, it once housed an Atlas F nuclear ballistic missile that could travel more than 7,000 miles. To withstand a Soviet strike, the silo’s concrete walls are up to nine feet thick. But it’s not some “dreary concrete basement hideaway,” Hall assures visitors to his website, survivalcondo.com. It’s a place to enjoy “the coolness of a missile ...
