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[29] [30] 29 were arrested in City Hall Park and jailed for refusing to take shelter during a drill. [31] [32] Protests, initially small and isolated, continued and grew throughout the 1950s. [33] Opposition to the drills increased; young mothers with children joined the protests in 1960.
A 1950 stamp commemorates Kansas City's centennial. Since the 1950s, Kansas City has gone through a transition and tried to shed its Cow Town image. This began when Kansas City was at its height of national attention with the back-to-back Presidencies of Harry Truman and Kansas favorite-son Dwight D. Eisenhower.
A fallout shelter is a shelter designed specifically for a nuclear war, with thick walls made from materials intended to block the radiation from fallout resulting from a nuclear explosion. Many such shelters [1] were constructed as civil defense measures during the Cold War. A blast shelter protects against
During the 1950s, many countries developed large civil-defense programs designed to aid the populace in the event of nuclear warfare. These generally included drills for evacuation to fallout shelters, popularized through popular media such as the US film Duck and Cover. These drills, with their images of eerily empty streets and the activity ...
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Such is the legacy of Fairyland Park, perhaps Kansas City’s biggest memory-maker of the mid-20th century. Ninety-nine years after the amusement park opened and 45 years after it closed, it still ...
Amazon's hotly anticipated post-apocalyptic series "Fallout" − based on the popular video game franchise that got its start in 1997 − debuted April 10. 'Fallout' fan quick to map vault ...
The Kansas City-Overland Park-Kansas City MO-KS (USA) Combined Statistical Area (CSA) encompasses the Metropolitan statistical areas (MSA) of Kansas City MO-KS, the St. Joseph metropolitan area and the Lawrence, Kansas metropolitan area with the Micropolitan Statistical Areas (μSA) of Warrensburg, Missouri, Atchison, Kansas, and Ottawa, Kansas.