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   Who said you can’t ride out the apocalypse in style? An entrepreneur based in Denver is offering wealthy but 11 home buyers a chance to make part of an abandoned missile silo their new home sweet home.

   Larry Hall, a former software engineer who bought his 174-foot-deep hole in the ground from the government for $300,000 in 2008, plans to convert it to calamity-proof condos by 2013. The silo is one of 72 built across the country to deter a Soviet attack during the Cold War. 12 into an empty stretch of rural Kansas, it once housed an Atlas F nuclear ballistic missile that could travel more than 7,000 miles. To withstand a Soviet strike, the silo’s concrete walls are up to nine feet thick. But it’s not some “ 13 concrete basement hideaway,” Hall assures visitors to his website, survivalcondo.com. It’s a place to enjoy “the coolness of a missile base, the protection of a nuclear-hardened bunker, and the features of a(n) 14 condo.”

   Plans include an indoor spa, a movie theater, and a general store that won’t charge money. “This way, residents can enjoy underground living whether or not a(n) 15 strikes.” Hall says. At press time three 1,820-square-foot floors had sold for $2 million each. Interested parties include a dentist and a former Kansas City Chiefs football player. 16 Armageddon break out, up to 70 people might have to live there in lockdown mode for years, so Hall 17 buyers for violent felonies, health problems, and anger issues. And he’s enthusiastic about settling in himself. “When there’s no volcano erupting or martial law declared, it’s just a neat place to live.”

   If the world is destroyed, two deep wells and a rainwater collection system will feed purified water into the silo. A diesel generator and wind turbine will supply electricity. Air will be piped in through nuclear, biological, and chemical contaminant filters. The silo will be surrounded by electric fencing and security cameras and will have its own 18 of weapons. The only thing visible above-ground is a concrete cap with blast-proof windows, built to withstand a shock wave traveling more than 2,000 miles an hour—about what a nuclear detonation would produce.

   Hall also has a sound plan for food and living spaces. The silo will store vegetables grown in soil-free trays and fish farmed in tanks. Connected to the silo by tunnel, the adjacent facility could supply food for up to 70 people indefinitely. Employees will normally 19 the food, but in lockdown, residents will maintain food, water, and other necessities themselves. Luxury apartments will have brand-name kitchen appliances and jet Jacuzzis in master bedrooms. To compensate for the lack of a view, occupants can enjoy scenery of their choosing, 20 San Francisco Bay or a tropical aquarium, on large, window-like HDTV panels. The “windows” dim in the evening to help make life seem at least semi-normal. So, even when the above-ground world is suffering through some form of catastrophe, you’ll be living it up in a home where you can literally enjoy the post-apocalypse.