Still, few of these structures were built to withstand bombs placed within their premises, where switching equipment is placed within cages or is left in areas open to employees and visiting technicians.
Such weapons include Mine Resistant Ambush Protected MRAPP) vehicles, meant to withstand bombs, and which are currently possessed by 500 law enforcement agencies throughout the country, the ACLU report found.
The capacity to withstand bomb attack owed much to the process of "militarising" civilians.
The second was the unforeseen resilience of well-organised societies to withstand bombing without suffering either moral or economic collapse.
It is armored with ceramic, titanium, aluminum, and steel to withstand bomb blasts, and it is sealed in case of biochemical attack.
Descending almost 500 feet under the permafrost, the entrance tunnel to the seed vault is designed to withstand bomb blasts and earthquakes.
He wants to kill several big projects, among them the air force's beloved F-22 fighter (too fancy for today's wars) and the army's new family of armoured vehicles (can't withstand roadside bombs).
Often located in remote suburban areas far from crowded streets, the buildings are designed to withstand truck bombs, but they also require local security forces and heavily armed guards to resist the type of attack that the militants staged in Benghazi.
Like many systems, the Army effort came to be seen by top Pentagon officials as too geared for conventional war at a time when the military needs to rely more on troops on the ground, and to provide them with simpler equipment designed to withstand roadside bombs and other more rudimentary attacks.
At 8 47 a.m. on Sept. 11, New York City's crisis command center, a $13 million emergency bunker on the 23rd floor of 7 World Trade Center, was a celebrated monument to disaster preparedness, a fortress judged ready to withstand hurricanes, bombs, blackouts, even a nuclear assault.
More recently, Mr. Brown has been fending off allegations from opposition lawmakers, military commanders and defense experts that Labour has underfinanced Britain's war effort in Afghanistan, particularly in failing to provide enough helicopters and armored vehicles that can withstand roadside bombs.
