SOURCES

Monteyne, David. Fallout Shelter: Designing for Civil Defense in the Cold War. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2011.

Rose Kenneth D. One Nation Underground: The Fallout Shelter in American Culture. New York: NYU Press, 2004.

Give Me (Nuclear) Shelter

Instructions

Cold War public fears about a nuclear attack on the United States peaked about 50 years ago. The government encouraged people at that time to build fallout shelters in their homes. How much do you know about this effort?

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