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'Sweden's civil defense system is in a class by itself. This bomb-shelter railway stop leads to an underground pharmaceutical plant and blood bank.'

each firm simultaneously engaged in civilian production to at least 50% of its capacity, but has also made the population uncommonly civil defense conscious. This awareness has enabled the government to construct an unmatched civil defense system against nuclear or other attack. With giant air-raid shelters in the central districts of the 14 largest cities and local shelters under all apartment houses, schools, hospitals, office buildings, and factories constructed since 1945, all of the urban population required to remain in the cities to marshal the war effort—some 2,000,000 persons—could be protected. Additionally, there are accessible food and water storage areas in or adjacent to the shelters, a highly sophisticated early warning system, and special underground control centers to assure functioning of the various government agencies during an attack.

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