fallout shelter
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Most people don’t notice the door to a long-abandoned fallout shelter.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 3, 2022
Another dubious idea, spread by the government and others, was that ordinary Americans could survive a thermonuclear attack by ducking, covering or building a fallout shelter.
From New York Times • Nov. 5, 2021
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
“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
Black-and-yellow triangular fallout shelter signs proliferated in public spaces, pointing the way to underground refuge from radiation.
From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly
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