![]() They’d have been superfluous under a genuine onslaught of commie megatons. ![]() Fallout shelters were often spaces like concrete-walled basements that could be retrofitted with air filtration systems, intended to protect occupants from the radioactive byproducts of a modest nuclear detonation. The advent of thermonuclear warheads-high-yield hydrogen bombs much more powerful than those dropped on Japan during World War II-rendered them moot. Rolled out in the early 1960s by the now-defunct Office of Civil Defense, they were never as well-equipped or funded as originally envisioned, which, frankly, didn’t much matter. ![]() Truthfully, fallout shelters were never all they were cracked up to be. These are, at this point, antiques, vestiges of a more innocent time a time when we liked to cling to the notion that a nuclear attack was readily survivable, sort of like a tornado, but with more gamma rays and fewer flying cows. ![]() Q: Would a 1960s-era designated “Fallout Shelter” help me in a nuclear attack today?Ī: We’ve all seen those yellow and black signs, emblazoned with three triangles, announcing the presence nearby of a fallout shelter. ![]()
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