fallout shelter

The building was once a fallout shelter and might be one of the few buildings that will survive.

A metal sign behind the bar declared the establishment a fallout shelter, with a folded piece of paper beneath it carrying a scrawled message that draws recurring laughs from customers: Do Your Drugs Elsewhere.

Decades ago, Beijing's network of underground fallout shelters were designed to protect the citizens of the Chinese capital from a nuclear war with the Soviet Union.

“We had people asking us if we still functioned as a fallout shelter,” said McGuire, the executive director of Diefenbunker: Canada’s Cold War Museum.

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