Send news tip to FOXNews.com

Ready for Doomsday

• AP
• AP
• AP
• AP
• AP
• AP
• AP
• AP
• AP
• AP
• AP
• AP
• AP
• AP
• AP
• AP

• The Svalbard Global Seed Vault is seen Monday Feb. 25, 2008 in Longyearbyen, Norway. A 'doomsday' vault built to withstand an earthquake or nuclear strike is ready to open deep in the permafrost of an Arctic mountain, where it will protect millions of agriculture seeds from man-made and natural disasters.
• Magnus Bredeli-Pveiten, project manager for the Svalbard Global Seed Vault Monday Feb. 25, 2008 is seen at the vault in Longyearbyen, Norway. The vault is to be officially inaugurated on Tuesday, less than year after crews started drilling in Norway's Svalbard archipelago, about 1,000 kilometers (620 miles) from the North Pole.
• An armed guard walks through the Svalbard Global Seed Vault Monday Feb. 25, 2008 in Longyearbyen, Norway. The vault has the capacity to store 4.5 million seed samples from around the globe, shielding them from climate change, wars, natural disasters and other threats.
• Feb. 25: Workers outside the entrace to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault near Longyearbyen, Svalbard island, Norway.
• The frozen door handle to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault Monday Feb. 25, 2008 in Longyearbyen, Norway.
• Cary Fowler, the Executive Director of the Global Crop Diversity Fund, holds seeds inside the Svalbard Global Seed Vault Monday Feb. 25, 2008 in Longyearbyen, Norway.
• An armed guard stands in the entrance tunnel to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault Monday Feb. 25, 2008 in Longyearbyen, Norway.
• Workers stand guard before sunrise at the Svalbard Global Seed Vault Monday Feb. 25, 2008 in Longyearbyen, Norway.
• The interior of Vault 2 in the Svalbard Global Seed Vault in Longyearbyen, Norway, showing racks and shelves upon which sample seeds will be placed. The vault, which has been described as Noah's Seed Ark and a Doomsday Vault, was dug into a mountainside in Norway's arctic Svalbard islands. It will hold 4.5 million different agricultural seed samples from around the world.
• Nobel Peace Prize winner Wangari Maathai of Kenya, left, and Norwegian prime minister Jens Stoltenberg, right, hold 'Box 1,' the first of many sealed cases containing seeds to be kept in the Svalbard Global Seed Vault in Longyearbyen, Norway, Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2008.
• A worker carries a box of seeds into the Svalbard Global Seed Vault in Longyearbyen, Norway, Tuesday Feb. 26, 2008. The 'doomsday' seed vault built to protect millions of food crops from climate change, wars and natural disasters opened Tuesday deep within an Arctic mountain in the remote Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard.
• A police officer, foreground right, looks on, as last minute preparations are made inside the Svalbard Global Seed Vault in Longyearbyen, Norway, Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2008.
• European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso, center right, and Norway's Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg, center left, attend the inauguration of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault in Longyearbyen, Norway, Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2008.
• Feb. 26: Snow blows off the Svalbard Global Seed Vault at sunrise before its inauguration on the Norwegian Arctic island of Spitsbergen.
• European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso, left, and Norway's Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg carry the first seeds into the Svalbard Global Seed Vault Tuesday Feb. 26, 2008.
• Nobel Peace Prize winner Wangari Maathai of Kenya is seen prior to the official opening of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault Tuesday Feb. 26, 2008 near Longyearbyen in Svalbard.