Probably better than everyone else. I don't think Switzerland was targeted by any nuclear strikes, but it has the the best civil defense system in the world, with blast shelters for all its citizens.
By law every inhabitant must have a protected place that can be reached quickly from his place of residence, and apartment block owners are required to construct and fit out shelters in all new dwellings. Most Swiss buildings built since 1963 have a fallout shelter, and many Swiss houses and apartment have concrete doors around 40 cm thick deep in the basement with an air supply system. Although most people use them for other purposes there is a legal requirement that a shelter/bunker must be cleaned up and returned to emergency condition within 24 hours, with beds in place, bare walls, no oxygen depleting carpet, and necessary food, water and medicine. In 2006 there were 300,000 shelters in Swiss dwellings, institutions and hospitals, as well as 5,100 public shelters, providing protection for 114 per cent of the population.
Switzerland also had the largest civil defence project in the world. 20,000 people could take refuge in the Sonnenberg tunnel in Lucerne. On the seven floors above the tunnel were a hospital, an operating theatre, a prison, night and day lights, a radio broadcasting studio and a control centre. Massive air filters were installed to supply the inhabitants with 192 cubic metres of non-radio-active air each day. However flaws and doubts about its logistical and engineering capabilities after some organising difficulties led to it being scaled down to accomodating 2,000 people in 2005.
Swiss tunnels and key bridges are also built with tank traps. Some are primed with demolition charges to be used against invading forces. Permanent fortifications are established in the Alps, as bases from which to retake the fertile valleys after a potential invasion. They include underground air bases which are adjacent to normal runways.
Swiss forces are also augmented by a militia system, were conscript citizens man 95% of the positions in the armed forces. The Swiss government also arms its citizens and the militia system stipulates that militia soldiers keep their personal weapons at home.
So basically you have a country which has nuclear shelters and facilities for all of its population and a few hundred thousand refugees, has an armed forces that can bomb every bridge and tunnel in Swizerland at a moments notice, has underground air bases and a government that gives military grade weapons to all of its adult citizens. How does anyone think the Swiss did in the Twilight War?
Last edited by RN7; 06-16-2011 at 06:30 PM.
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