1963ĭuring the Cold War, many countries built fallout shelters for high-ranking government officials and crucial military facilities, such as Project Greek Island and the Cheyenne Mountain nuclear bunker in the United States and Canada's Emergency Government Headquarters. Department of Defense, Office of Civil Defense. History North America Fallout shelter water storage can: a 66 liters ( 17 + 1⁄ 2 U.S. gal) barrel issued by the U.S. A fallout shelter is designed to allow its occupants to minimize exposure to harmful fallout until radioactivity has decayed to a safer level, over a few weeks or months. Much of this highly radioactive material falls to Earth, subjecting anything within the line of sight to radiation, becoming a significant hazard. The fallout emits alpha and beta particles, as well as gamma rays. When this material condenses in the rain, it forms dust and light sandy materials that resemble ground pumice. Many such shelters were constructed as civil defense measures during the Cold War.ĭuring a nuclear explosion, matter vaporized in the resulting fireball is exposed to neutrons from the explosion, absorbs them, and becomes radioactive. 12,1969, announcing that more than 75,000 households would receive by mail a community shelter plan that was created for Caddo and Bossier parishes instructing people where to go and what to do in a nuclear attack.A fallout shelter is an enclosed space specially designated to protect occupants from radioactive debris or fallout resulting from a nuclear explosion.
The Shreveport Times published an article on Jan. She plans to create a civil defense exhibit at the history center. “I personally think it's a fascinating and very educational collection,” said Marisa Richardson, the Bossier center's curator of collections and exhibits. Included are maps, photos, pamphlets and even a hazard suit. The Bossier Parish Library Historical Center has a large collection of civil defense items donated from the Caddo-Bossier Office of Homeland Security. Blakeley, on public buildings that peaked his interest and eventually lead him to create the online museum, dedicated to information on shelters and the civil defense. It was seeing the yellow and black fallout shelter signs, designed by Robert W. These public shelters, intended for a two-week stay, were to protect us from the radioactive fallout from a bomb, Green said.
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