fallout shelter
Example Sentences
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The Diefenbunker still has most of the form and features of the nuclear fallout shelter it once was for Canadian government and military VIPs.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 29, 2023
As a child in New York City in the 1960s, Victor Narro remembers feeling comforted whenever he saw a sign indicating a fallout shelter — three yellow triangles in a black circle.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 4, 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
“This must be the route to the old fallout shelter from the nineteen sixties,” said Grace.
From "The Smartest Kid in the Universe" by Chris Grabenstein
