Norway to mandate bomb shelters in new civil defense plan

Norway plans to require all new buildings to have a bomb shelter as part of its efforts to boost the crisis resilience of its civil society after neighboring Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Report informs via Bloomberg.

The government in Oslo seeks to reverse a decision by lawmakers in 1998 to suspend such a requirement for all buildings with an area exceeding 1,000 square meters (11,000 square feet), according to a white paper on “total preparedness” published on Friday.

The decision has meant that no new bomb shelters have been built in the Nordic nation since then.