Tuesday, December 1, 2020

An Underground Elementary School That Doubled as an Advanced Cold War Fallout Shelter


During the 1961 Berlin Crisis—one of the various moments in the Cold War in which we came frighteningly close to engaging in actual war with the Soviets—President John F. Kennedy vowed to identify spaces in “existing structures both public and private that could be used for fallout shelters in case of attack.”


 

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