Preparing for a ‘nuclear event’ – LA Daily News

Posted by Matt in December 14th, 2009 | no comment

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Local officials taking inventory of bomb and fallout shelters

While the possibility of a nuclear attack in Los Angeles seems almost unthinkable, local officials are inventorying hundreds of old bomb and fallout shelters as part of their preparations for a “radiological or nuclear event.”
Los Angeles and other metropolitan areas are drafting emergency plans while federal [...]

Fallout shelters were the rage in the ’50s and ’60s | Hudson Star-Observer

Posted by Matt in December 3rd, 2009 | no comment

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In the 1950s and early 1960s, the buzz word in American homes was “fallout shelter.”
A fallout shelter was a civil defense initiative intended to reduce casualties in a nuclear war. It was designed to allow occupants to avoid exposure to harmful radioactive fallout from a nuclear blast and its likely aftermath of radiation until radioactivity [...]

The Bomb Shelter Business is Booming – Popular Mechanics

Posted by Matt in July 26th, 2009 | no comment

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The bomb shelter business is booming. At least that’s the consensus of the men and women who design, construct and install underground sanctuaries. They attribute the growth in business to Kim Jong Il’s erratic missile lobbing, the intransigent Iranian clerics hell-bent on getting nuclear weaponry, the impending total collapse of the global financial system, and [...]

Prefabricated Fallout Shelters

Posted by Matt in July 12th, 2008 | 1 comment

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Check out the fallout shelters from Safecastle. They make big metal boxes that are then buried several feet underground. This looks like an inexpensive way to to. Although, it’s still not cheap. I’ve listed information from their eBay ad further down the page.
Nuclear / Biological / Chemical Fallout Shelters

Exterior view of 6′ X 7′ X [...]

Israelis put nuclear bunkers in gardens

Posted by Matt in October 29th, 2006 | no comment

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AMID mounting fears that Iran is planning to obliterate their country, wealthy Israelis are shelling out on underground nuclear shelters in the gardens of their luxury homes.
The shelters, which cost at least 60,000 for a bargain-basement version, are built to withstand radioactive fallout, have fortified walls and doors and generate their own electricity and decontaminated [...]