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November 29, 2001

More than a million people have found work in business operating out of hundreds of miles of 1960s bomb shelters. The network was built when it was feared that there might be a nuclear attack by the Soviet Union. Despite the threats of war with Taiwan, the shelters have been converted to commercial uses.