A lot of sci fi and even paranoid government programs (eg. COG protocols), explore the ideas of humanity hiding out in underground bunkers to survive the self induced apocalypse de jour. How long could something such as this actually last before everyone perishes? (My thoughts in comments).
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Four generations. After the third perishes there's no grounded understanding of the importance of perseverance.
And that's assuming that someone doesn't rise up as dictator and overthrows the leadership, then pillages the stores and burns the rest Mad Max style, and then they all start eating each other until there's only one guy left, and there isn't much he can do to prolong the species on his own, at least not that I know of.