Posted on 12/14/2017 1:05:46 PM PST by Sawdring
Radioactive Fallout: "Radiological Defense" 1961 US Department of Defense, Civil Defense
Old Time Civil Defense movie for explanation of the effects of nuclear weaponry and radiation. Enjoy!
Every once in a while you see somebody referring to a “Nuclear Bomb Shelter”.
Nope. Well, maybe Cheyenne Mountain.
There are only *Fallout* shelters
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Bkmrk.
We done got bomb shelters built here dug into in the mountains in the 1950`s during civil defense exercises against Russian nuclear attack, still in use today.
What you talkin` about?
Evidently it would appear that somebody won`t find it on the internet coz there was no internet then and those people that built them kept it a secret and they is dead and gone by now exceptin` some of us stll got the bomb shelters intact and ready. Um I was there when they built`em. We wuz trained during the GOC ground Observer Corps to spot bears Bombers USSR comin` over and we wuz required to build and stock these bomb shelters, NOT “fallout shelters.” They was designed to withstand an atomic burst close by coz they is solid concrete into the mountain and it`s only 200 yards from my house. You ain`t gonna find`em on the internet nor nowhere coz it was during the Cold war and nobody told nobody where they was.
There is one in California I know of also was still there in the 1980`s in a suburb of SF, built underground to withstand a nuclear burst close by. I saw it up close. YUPYUP YUP you won`t find that one on the net neither...
We also got us a nuclear sub pen here built into the side of the mountain 3 miles deep against a nuclear blast. Been there don that too.
Well, I stand corrected; however I think Robert Heinlein said it best “The only effective defense against a nuclear weapon is to not be there when it goes off.” *I* wouldn’t trust ‘em, not that it really matters :-)
“In case of nuclear blast, squat down, bend your head between your knees as far as possible and kiss your sweet a** goodbye!”
From the overall study, and given a certain minimum distance of course, it is clear that there are ways to respond that maximize survival, even in the face of the nuclear blast. “Duck and cover” was not a joke, and it was not a pointless exercise.
I have a shelter under my back yard. It is entirely steel plate. It is both welded and in some places riveted.
Riveted. Like the Titanic!
Some folks scoff and say it is a tornado shelter. It is not.
My shelter, built in the mid 1960s, has a full 3 feet of earth between the surface and the ceiling.
Also, it has a foyer at the bottom of the stairwell with a 90 degree turn into the main room, because radiation does not go around corners, it was believed at the time.
Pretty sure that is still the case.
Unless you have a black hole down there.
For later.
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Nice!
I think having a fallout shelter would be a good idea, no argument. Groundwater is way too high here, at least to go underground.
Oh, the bottom half of the shelter is definitely below the water table here in Houston.
The whole room is intact and maintains its integrity, and thus floats a little. There is a rectangular outline in my lawn indicating that the entire structure has raised a few inches over time.
I was advised to keep it full of water to prevent that.
It was wired for electricity, and one of the ways I dated the structure was by dating the incandescent light bulb that was still in its fixture. In the old days, round incandescent bulbs had a small bump at the very top. It was not completely spherical.
Thus, my guess is that it was installed during or shortly after the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Sweet.
I want one that doubles as a rehearsal studio, I knew of one of those in San Francisco.
Not counting the stairwell or foyer, the room itself is about 10’ by 13’ and 7 feet high.
It’s not for the claustrophobic.
It has 2 poles in the center for support, and a few triangular gussets emanating from the walls to strengthen the ceiling.
By today’s standards the poles and gussets are very, very anemic.
Judging by the hammock hooks welded into the walls, it looks like it was meant for a family of 3.
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