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The episode aired after a summer in which the fallout shelter had loomed large in national discourse, due to the Berlin Crisis of 1961. [1] Meeting with U.S. President John F. Kennedy in Vienna , Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev insisted—not for the first time—that NATO troops withdraw from Berlin , handing over the city to an independent ...
Fallout Shelter is a free-to-play construction and management simulation video game developed by Bethesda Game Studios, with assistance by Behaviour Interactive, ...
The fallout radiation advice in Protect and Survive was based on 1960s fallout shelter experiments [5] summarised by Daniel T. Jones of the Home Office Scientific Advisory Branch [6] in his report, The Protection Against Fallout Radiation Afforded by Core Shelters in a Typical British House which was published in Protective Structures for ...
Conference room at CEGHQ, former CFS Carp. Teletype terminals at CEGHQ, former CFS Carp. Organigramme. Emergency Government Headquarters is the name given for a system of nuclear fallout shelters built by the Government of Canada in the 1950s and 1960s as part of continuity of government planning at the height of the Cold War.
[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.
The setup for the story is a direct hit by a nuclear weapon, catapulting a nuclear shelter containing Farnham, his wife, son, daughter, daughter's friend, and employee into the future. While writing the story, Heinlein drew on his experience of building a fallout shelter under his home in Colorado Springs, Colorado in the 1960s.
The commission's first program was the subject of controversy. The Los Angeles Times referred to its proposed nuclear fallout shelter plan as being “massive”, ($4,119,180,401 (adjusted for inflation, $404 million in 1961 dollars). The program would pass funds through a member of the commission, raising concerns of a conflict of interest. A ...
Abo Elementary School in Artesia, New Mexico, United States, was the first public school in the United States constructed entirely underground and equipped to function as an advanced fallout shelter. [ 2 ] : 137–139, 148 Designed at the height of the Cold War and completed in 1962, the school had a concrete slab roof which doubled as the ...