In the past few years we’ve seen a couple of underground cold war missile silo complexes in the U.S. sell for a song. A site in Arizona went up for sale in 2019 and quickly found a buyer at $400K; this winter, an abandoned Atlas-F silo in Kansas popped up for $380K.

This summer, a similar property in Nebraska has found an interested buyer after only about a month on the market. The 1962-built underground complex is another abandoned former home of an Atlas-F missile; listed at $550K, it moved into pending status earlier this month and is expected to close soon.

The property’s anatomy includes two stories of underground space, including 2,500 sq. ft. that could be converted into a one-and-one duplex residence (put the pool table on the lower level…you’ll have plenty of time to practice after the cataclysm). The sale includes 6.19 acres of land.

The irony of employing a site of piecemeal Armageddon and a contributor to the sudden collapse of human civilization as a possible living space is both humorous and depressingly indicative of the zeitgeist. Anyone looking to spend half a mil to dress up a hole in the ground as a last-ditch survival solution confirms the unease in the collective psyche, and for such grim, rusting subterranean properties to literally fly off the market is telling indeed.

Ah well. Not to worry.