At the height of the Cold War, the civilian populations were trained just what to do in the event of a nuclear attack — run to their fallout shelter! Or at least take cover in a building bearing a yellow fallout shelter symbol.
A fallout shelter is specially designed to protect occupants from radioactive debris or fallout resulting from a nuclear explosion. Many such shelters were constructed as civil defense measures during this crazier times.
A fallout shelter is designed to allow its occupants to minimize exposure to harmful fallout until radioactivity has decayed to a safer level.
A mother and her children made a practice run for their $5,000 steel backyard fallout shelter in Sacramento, California, in 1961.
Family shopping for their fallout shelter
Atomic fallout survival madness
Economy family shelter option
Do-It-Yourself atomic bomb shelter
Bomb Shelter Handbook
U.S. President John F. Kennedy’s top-secret Florida bunker
Fallout shelter during the cold war
1962 archive photograph, Mrs. W. C. Bruner and daughter Rhonda, 8, pose in their home fallout shelter in Knoxville, Tenn.
Kids hiding under desk during 1950s Civil Defense Drill at school
Because of the cold war and the nuclear arms race, a Septic tank is converted to 6 person bomb shelter, 1951
Government photograph of suggested supplies for a fallout shelter, ca. 1961.
Bomb shelter honeymoon
Fallout shelter near Akron, MI. in 1960
A family tries out a basement fallout shelter at the New York Civil Defense headquarters
Rand shelters
Harry and Mary Dembe and their children, Steven and Elaine, peer curiously into the steel bomb shelter that the family installed beside their Scenic Drive home 40 years ago.
