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Forget hiding in the basement. Brits worried about their safety can now purchase a completely bombproof house, made by the steel manufacturer Corus. The Surefast shelter, launched earlier this month, is constructed out of steel panels that are slotted together and filled with concrete. But don't expect to just throw it together at the last minute: it takes several people 10 hours--and the help of a heavy crane--to assemble the two-story, 50,000 [pound] structure. In tests the shelter has successfully withstood everything from ...