{"id":113193,"date":"2026-08-08T19:35:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T19:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/113193\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T19:35:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T19:35:08","slug":"why-does-switzerland-have-so-many-nuclear-bunkers-state-of-the-world-from-npr-npr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/113193\/","title":{"rendered":"Why does Switzerland have so many nuclear bunkers? : State of the World from NPR : NPR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1786217708_32_.jpeg\" data-template=\"https:\/\/npr.brightspotcdn.com\/dims3\/default\/strip\/false\/crop\/1600x1200+0+0\/resize\/{width}\/quality\/{quality}\/format\/{format}\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F62%2F69%2F4a06c850462ea8cb9c4ebac53837%2Fbbff8930-e663-49f0-8fca-4ec1b15b8d5a.jpeg\" class=\"img\" alt=\"\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n                Berger Ziadduin, an expert on the history of bunkers in Switzerland, stands inside one of the nuclear bunkers that forms the country&#8217;s network of such shelters.<\/p>\n<p>                    Rob Schmitz\/ NPR<\/p>\n<p>                hide caption\n            <\/p>\n<p>              toggle caption<\/p>\n<p>        Rob Schmitz\/ NPR<\/p>\n<p>Switzerland might be thought of as the land of snow-capped alps and incredibly good chocolate.  But it is also a world leader in underground nuclear bunkers with more than 370,000 of them. There are enough for each of Switzerland\u2019s nine million citizens to be guaranteed a space in one.  But why?  We go to the alpine country to find out.<\/p>\n<p>Support public media with NPR+ and enjoy perks for over 25 podcasts like this one. This show\u2019s perks include sponsor-free listening. Learn more at <a href=\"http:\/\/plus.npr.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">plus.npr.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Berger Ziadduin, an expert on the history of bunkers in Switzerland, stands inside one of the nuclear bunkers&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":113194,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[16],"tags":[50],"class_list":["post-113193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-alps","tag-alps"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/117061571515664157","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113193\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}