During the onset of the Cold War, the federal government was reluctant to fund shelters in urban areas, in favor of ones in suburban backyards.Ī former fallout shelter at the London Terrace apartments in Chelsea. Perhaps it isn’t surprising that in 1966, New York City’s civil defense director discovered that most of the shelters had no supplies. It was largely up to the discretion of inspectors to determine whether a place could be a shelter. What did the average fallout shelter look like? The administration of fallout shelters was slightly strange, in that there may not have been federal standards for their design.
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