Cold War Fallout Shelter
Sign designating the area.
Cold war fallout shelter. Survival supplies were stacked and stored in the. 16 haunting photos of an abandoned cold war fallout shelter thats hidden underneath an elementary school in washington dc a sign in the basement still hangs on the wall designating the area as a fallout shelter. At cold war nuclear fallout shelters these foods were stocked for survival grandmas pantry. Fallout shelters that met federal criteria had a federal fallout shelter sign.
Back during the cold war when it did not seem at all far fetched that a soviet nuclear bomb might ruin your day glenn eastons mother in law looked into building a fallout shelter in her backyard. A tin of biscuits found open along with other survival. According to brewer the federal government began supplying municipalities like elk city with fallout shelter supplies in the early 1960s at the height of cold war tensions between the united states and the soviet union when the risk of nuclear war was greatest. Cold war era fallout shelters are still a feature in some homes dan kaplan stands near an iron door that marks the entrance to the cold war era fallout shelter in his kensington.
Civil defense pamphlet her parents harold and adele.