Why Do We Still See Fallout Shelter Signs?
Caldawil Primary School in Makini, Texas, northeast of Dallas, looks like a brick manager in the 1940s. But it was serving a decisive role in the middle of the century: If a nuclear attack occurs, a McKinen residents can ask a refuge of radioactive repercussions in the basement.
Fad “Repercussions“A sign with three yellow triangles above the door is one of the tens of thousand cold war. So why are they still?
“Follow the stocks”
When Washington and Moscow pushed the world to the edge of the nuclear edge in the early 1960s, the signs of Fallout refuge became a common part of the American scene. On July 25, 1961, President John F. Kennedy He said in TV address The United States has a moral commitment to protect its people from Nuclear threat. He said before announcing a plan to create general repercussions throughout the country: “The realization of the possibilities of the nuclear war in the age of missiles, without our citizens knowing what they should do and where they should go if the bombs begin to fall, will be a failure of responsibility.”
By September of that year, representatives of the National Shelter Program were working hard to determine the appropriate public spaces in the current buildings and store them with the basic survival supplies. (Keywords here general: The United States has already calculated a large number of shelters, but it was private and unknown to most people.) Each shelter could include 50 or more people with the National Fallout sign, which was unveiled by the Civil Defense Office at the Ministry of Defense on December 1, 1961.
“Follow the stocks” Los Angeles Times Read, and introduce readers into a symbol that will be known as well as golden arches or the toxic uncle’s finger. A press release from the Civil Defense Office described the brand as a yellow background with a black circle and three yellow triangles inside the circle above the words Repercussions. “The color mix, yellow and black, is the most attention that was easily identified by psychologists in the graphic arts industry,” Say the release.
By 1964, the program created sufficient shelters to house 120 million people – its Easter exceeds its first goal of 20 million. Recruitment shelters came in all kinds of shapes and sizes. Some of them were built and managed directly by the government, while others were licensed to third parties. like specific In directing the program, each shelter needed the minimum minimum capacity of 50 individuals, 10 square feet of land area if the facility was ventilated properly, and 500 cubic feet if not.
To facilitate the new construction, the Ministry of Defense has established annual prizes for architectural companies that merged shelters into their buildings. The Pentagon also conducted surveys to know the most radiation -resistant buildings, with dams, tunnels, caves and even the upper floors of tall buildings that were found to be safe places to sit on nuclear repercussions.
Fallout shelter for grenade shelter
Unlike the common belief, none of these shelters was able to protect people from a nuclear explosion. It can only be isolated from the output radiation. If your city has an atomic bomb, there is no saved you. However, if you live elsewhere – away from influence – it can theoretically protect you from the neighborhood shelter from radiotherapy.
This, as long as it remains inside. Scientists advised the ICRC to a minimum waiting period 48 hoursAlmost the time it takes to very dangerous levels of radiation to drop to this moderate dangerous. Only in the case, though, the national shelter program is confirmed SuppliesIncluding non -damaged foods, water, medical groups and radiation detectors.
The National Shelter Program has gradually expanded its operations in the 1970s and eighties of the last century, where the American Federation and the Soviet Union from the edge of the nuclear abyss were taken to cancel the escalation, and finally, disarmament after the 1987-range nuclear power treaty. Without additional federal financing to dismantle the shelters, most municipalities have left their facilities as they are-with the signs of the Fallout National Refuse above the doors As an unintended reminder in the past.
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