fallout shelter

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Intimations of imminent war were routinely made, with one host asking viewers to secure a "fallout shelter."

From Salon • Dec. 30, 2024

A nuclear fallout shelter that Canada built during the Cold War for its top government officials opened as a museum in the late 1990s.

From New York Times • Jan. 26, 2023

Most people don’t notice the door to a long-abandoned fallout shelter.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 3, 2022

“Brewster McCloud” A salute to Robert Altman continues with the filmmaker’s darkly comic 1970 fable featuring Bud Cort as a young loner living in a fallout shelter beneath the Houston Astrodome.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 13, 2021

Market day looks like you just came out of your fallout shelter after the bomb attack: nobody there but a few old guys with car parts and knives and cookpots, hoping to trade for food.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver