fallout shelter
Americannoun
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fallout shelters
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It will serve as a fallout shelter against deadly storms and also house the city's police department and the fire department that came to Benham's aid.
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026
The building was once a fallout shelter and might be one of the few buildings that will survive.
From Seattle Times ● May 2, 2024
A nuclear fallout shelter that Canada built during the Cold War for its top government officials opened as a museum in the late 1990s.
From New York Times ● Jan. 26, 2023
“Brewster McCloud” A salute to Robert Altman continues with the filmmaker’s darkly comic 1970 fable featuring Bud Cort as a young loner living in a fallout shelter beneath the Houston Astrodome.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2021
Black-and-yellow triangular fallout shelter signs proliferated in public spaces, pointing the way to underground refuge from radiation.
From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly
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