fallout shelter
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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
Our basement bunker was actually a combination bomb shelter and fallout shelter, to protect us from both the explosion and the subsequent radiation.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 25, 2022
When Putin started talking about nuclear weapons, Narro posted a fallout shelter sign to social media.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 4, 2022
The museum’s exhibits are found throughout this sprawling network of concrete tunnels used as a bomb shelter in the 1940s and as a fallout shelter thereafter.
From Washington Post • Oct. 7, 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
