fallout shelter
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The building was once a fallout shelter and might be one of the few buildings that will survive.
From Seattle Times • May 2, 2024
What should the ideal nuclear fallout shelter welcome basket contain?
From Salon • Apr. 21, 2024
As a child in New York City in the 1960s, Victor Narro remembers feeling comforted whenever he saw a sign indicating a fallout shelter — three yellow triangles in a black circle.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 4, 2022
Another dubious idea, spread by the government and others, was that ordinary Americans could survive a thermonuclear attack by ducking, covering or building a fallout shelter.
From New York Times • Nov. 5, 2021
Market day looks like you just came out of your fallout shelter after the bomb attack: nobody there but a few old guys with car parts and knives and cookpots, hoping to trade for food.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
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