“What is the civil defense using as an interpretation for this word, ‘fallout shelter’?” asked a school board member identified as Mrs. Steele in meeting transcripts from September of that yea ...

It’s out with the old: movie reels and record albums about first aid and civil defense, dosimeters that clip to one’s pocket and measure radioactivity, bullhorns, hardhats and fallout shelter ...

that Federal Civil Defense Administration officials designated as public fallout shelters. “Pretty much every town, even the smallest, had some sort of public shelter,” Rose says.

as civil defense bureaucrat Leo Hoegh put it in the 1959 film Walt Builds a Family Fallout Shelter, "No home in America is modern without a fallout shelter." Naturally, the federal government ...

William C. Melton, left, the city of Victorville’s civil defense coordination, takes a phone call as his top aide, Phil Mull, looks on, in the fallout shelter command post located 185 feet below ...

Nuclear attack by "Yankees or whatever" Newspapers from the 1960s and '70s are filled with accounts of the development of civil defense fallout shelter programs, including an article in The ...

The sign in front of the Los Angeles County Superior Court building downtown is one of thousands administered federally by the Office of Civil Defense ... of the public fallout shelter sign ...

Inc. announced the start of a fallout shelter program that may well be the largest undertaking of its kind in the country. In accordance with civil defense regulations, Rockefeller Center has had ...

He’s also the author of “Fallout Shelter: Designing for Civil Defense in the Cold War.” He told me that Jordan and I are both making a common mistake. “To answer this question, you kind of ...

Gov. John Volpe opened the first Civil Defense fallout shelter in Massachusetts in the State House in Boston in November 1962, just after the missile crisis eased. In Plymouth, like most every ...

In the 1970s and ’80s, Chicago fashion designers held their own against the top names in the industry. Today, the city’s ...

Civil Defense poster and goggles were left behind in a fallout shelter that used to be in PS 45, West Brighton. (Advance file photo) PS 45 in West Brighton and Markham Intermediate School in ...