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It is certainly a myth that private backyard or basement fallout shelters proliferated widely during the Cold War. But in the late 1950s and early 60s measures in that direction produced . . .
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not only the ubiquitous “Fallout Shelter” signs that adorned public buildings but also contingency plans that mobilized highways, hospitals, and other public resources in the event of a Soviet atomic attack.
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The effort produced the much-mocked “Bert the Turtle” propaganda film shown to schoolchildren in the period, and the even more maligned “duck-and-cover” classroom drill.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKqXu-5jw60
Duck And Cover (1951) Bert The Turtle - YouTube

Duck and Cover staring Bert the Turtle is a 1951 Civil Defense FilmWritten by Raymond J. Mauer and directed by Anthony Rizzo of Archer Productions and made w...

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Still, for all its paranoia, the civil defense effort did produce some lasting consequences, notably influencing the “Brutalist” style that still flecks the American architectural landscape to this day, such as Boston's City Hall, permanent monuments to American nuclear anxiety.
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Or visitors can tour the massive Greenbrier bunker, exposed in 1992, designed to safeguard Washington’s political dignitaries if the worst came to it.
https://www.slate.com/blogs/atlas_obscura/2013/08/16/behind_a_false_wall_at_west_virginia_s_ritzy_gr...
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The ultimate impracticality of most civil defense proposals highlighted the absurdity of nuclear war and led directly to a new impulse in Washington to negotiate with the USSR and reduce overall Cold War tensions, an era known as “détente.”
https://www.amazon.com/One-Nation-Underground-Fallout-Amer
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The Office of Civil Defense, established under Eisenhower, would crumble by the loss of faith in civil defense but then be given a new lease on life by the emerging environmentalism of the period to become eventually in the 1970s the Federal Emergency Management Agency--FEMA.
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