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Luxury Doomsday Bunker Builder Cashes in on Trump’s War
May 11, 2026
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Photo Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast/Getty/Survival CondoA survival bunker salesman is licking his lips thanks to President Donald Trump’s war in Iran.Larry Hall, a softly spoken 69-year-old originally from upstate New York and now living in Colorado, had spent his career building data centers for defense contractors, including Northrop Grumman, but the Sept.
11, 2001, terror attacks changed his direction in life. After the 9/11 attacks, he initially planned to build hardened data-storage facilities to protect information infrastructure, but pivoted to building shelters for “ultra high net worth people,” as he calls his customers. Read more at The Daily Beast.
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