Bunker: What It Takes to Survive the Apocalypse

In the United States alone, nearly twelve million people are prepared to survive for thirty days without access to food , water, or power. Millions more have started prepping for the sorts of emergencies - blackouts, wildfires, civil unrest - that they hear about in the news every day.

Bradley Garrett crossed four continents to meet preppers building panic rooms and backyard survival chambers, stockpiling supplies, stuffing go-bags, hiding inflatable rafts, rigging mobile "bugout" vehicles, and burrowing deep into the earth. He's taken the pulse of a new global movement and returned with a brilliant, original, and deeply disturbing diagnosis of the way we now live.

Whenever social and political systems fail to produce credible narratives of stability, Garrett argues, prepping is a rational response. And those who live in dread - the next pandemic, of nuclear brinkmanship, or of an accelerating climate crisis - are responding to it predictable, reasonably even, by hunkering down.