(Searches for "nuclear," meanwhile, are at their most numerous since the 2011 Fukushima disaster.) Google Trends data shows searches for "bunker" spiking to levels that haven't been seen since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. Russia's intensifying conflict has inspired a wave of worry across Europe about the threat of nuclear war, prompting some with means to investigate the possibility of building their own shelter or renting space in former government facilities abandoned for their impracticality as a means of protecting civilian populations. "Everyone was getting really frightened." "From the first day that it kicked off in Ukraine … my phones were ringing," said Charles Hardman, director of Subterranean Spaces, a bespoke bunker and basement design company in the United Kingdom. Amid daily scenes of devastation in Ukraine, one sector is cashing in on rising fears of war: the world's manufacturers of backyard bunkers.
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