FALL OUT SHELTER Traditional Cache
RAGE XN: I am not sure how or when cache was moved on to your property. It was placed across the street from this location and was a small cache. I am sorry for the issues that have taken place with the property listed. I am taking the cache off line today.
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A REGULAR PLASTIC MAYO JAR WITH DUCT TAPE PLACED NEAR THE ENTRANCE OF AN OLD FALL OT SHELTER.
THESE FALL OUT SHELTERS ARE GETTING HARDER TO FIND. AT THIS LOCATION YOU CAN SEE THE OLD BLACK AND YELLOW SIGN. THE LOCATION NEXT TO THIS BUILDING IS THE OLD BAYER OFFICE BUILDING. IT HAS SOME BEAUTIFUL ARCHITECTURE WITH SOME GREAT CORINTHIAN PILLARS AND WONDERFUL TERRACOTTA WORK. I WAS INFORMED THAT IF YOU WANT SEE THIS BUILDING YOU BETTER HURRY, BECAUSE IT WILL TAKEN DOWN SOON. ANOTHER GREAT BUILDING IN WHEELING WILL BE GONE...VERY SAD. ENJOY THIS OLD BUILDING AND THE BOMBING SCARES OF THE PAST.
FALLOUT SHELTER HISTORY US
During the Cold War, many countries built fallout shelters for high-ranking government officials and crucial military facilities. Plans were made, however, to use existing buildings with sturdy below-ground-level basements as makeshift fallout shelters. These buildings were usually placarded with the yellow and black trefoil sign. The initial blast of a nuclear attack might well have rendered these basements either buried under many tons of rubble and thus impossible to leave, or removed their upper framework, thus leaving the basements unprotected. The design of the individual shelter would have determined the ultimate result of such occurrences.[original research?]
The National Emergency Alarm Repeater (N.E.A.R.) program was developed in 1956 during the cold war to supplement the existing siren warning systems and radio broadcasts in the event of a nuclear attack. The N.E.A.R. civilian alarm device was engineered and tested but the program was not viable and went defunct about 1966. In the U.S. in September 1961, the federal government started the Community Fallout Shelter Program. A letter from President Kennedy advising the use of fallout shelters appeared in the September 1961 issue of Life magazine.
In November 1961 in Fortune magazine, an article by Gilbert Burck appeared that outlined the plans of Nelson Rockefeller, Edward Teller, Herman Kahn, and Chet Holifield for an enormous network of concrete lined underground fallout shelters throughout the United States sufficient to shelter millions of people to serve as a refuge in case of nuclear war.
American fallout shelters in the early 1960s were sometimes funded in conjunction with funding for other federal programs, such as urban renewal projects of the Federal Housing Authority, examples being Barrington Plaza, and other development projects of Los Angeles County Civil Defense and Disaster Commissioner, Louis Lesser, and were designed for large numbers of citizens.
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