tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17730431232200399472024-02-08T00:36:38.392-05:00FALLOUT_SHELTER_NYCFALLOUT SHELTER NYC IS AN ATTEMPT TO FIND AND CENTRALIZE THE ATOMIC HISTORY OF THE NYC AREA AND THE EASTERN SUBURBS OF LONG ISLAND NY AND THE NUCLEAR GENIE THAT BEGGED TO BE LET LOOSE AND ITS ATOMIC MASTERS THE US NUCLEAR FORCES - DECLASSIFIED-DESANITIZED- ARCHIVAL FILM FOOTAGE,PICTURES,STORIES FROM THE COLD WAR TELLING THE STORY OF A WAR THAT WAS ANYTHING BUT COLD-THE CIVIL DEFENSE, THE STRATEGIC DEFENSE ,THE NATIONAL DEFENSE ,THE ARMED DEFENSE ,AND THE OTHER SIDE OF THE FENCEFALLOUT_SHELTER_NYChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12785631161599947787noreply@blogger.comBlogger173125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1773043123220039947.post-61242337870826271052022-05-20T04:48:00.000-04:002022-05-27T14:46:53.745-04:00FALLOUT_SHELTER_LOS_ ANGELES ,THE CITY OF ANGELS PREPARES FOR ARMEGGEDON (1955-1961)<div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><strong><u><span style="background-color: yellow; color: black; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;">FALLOUT_SHELTER_LOS_ANGELES</span></u></strong><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-hXUrIvdWo1k/TgRCol6Rz8I/AAAAAAAADQ8/VD5NX8YonRs/s1600/la.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" i="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-hXUrIvdWo1k/TgRCol6Rz8I/AAAAAAAADQ8/VD5NX8YonRs/s1600/la.png" true="" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><strong><u><span style="background-color: yellow; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">THE CITIZENS OF LOS ANGELES WERE NOT UNAWARE OF THE ENORMOUS DESTRUCTIVE CAPABILITIES OF ATOMIC WEAPONS, EVERY TEST AT THE NEVADA TEST SITE, MERCURY NEVADA WAS CONDUCTED BEFORE DAWN AND LOS ANGELES WOULD ACTUALLY SEE THE ENTIRE EASTERN SKY LIGHT UP AS IF THE SUN WAS RISING BRIEFLY ILLUMINATING LOS ANGELES IN A CAMERA FLASH BULB EFFECT....... THE TEST WAS HUNDREDS OF MILES AWAY.</span></u></strong></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b><u><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>WNYC PRESERVES SOME AUDIO FROM THE ATOMIC ERA,WELL WORTH HAVING A LISTEN TO.NOT MANY RECORDINGS HAVE LASTED THE YEARS THESE ARE PRETTY COOL SINCE THEY ARE ABOUT NEW YORK, THE FIRST DEALS WITH THE EVERYDAY CITIZEN ASKED WHAT HE OR SHE WOULD DO IF A ATOMIC ATTACK WERE IMMINENT, THE SECOND TALKS ABOUT THE DAY THE BRONX WAS BOMBED DURING A CIVIL DEFENSE ATOMIC ATTACK DRILL THAT WAS CONDUCTED NATION WIDE.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">In response to the Cold War threat of nuclear war the New York State <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Civil Defense Network produced an informational radio series</span> titled Plan for Survival, hosted by <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Bill Leonard. The program </span>informed New Yorkers of the enduring threat of war and encouraged them to enroll in Civil Defense training. </span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">This episode, "The A-Bomb and its Effects," opens with the ominous sound of a ticking clock, followed by the Earth-shattering rumble of an atom bomb blast. Guest Martin Caden, technical specialist of the New York State Civil Defense Commission, speaks with authority about the impact of the atom bombs in Japan. He dramatically describes the visual and aural experience of an atomic explosion: an intense searing light that will appear brighter than 100 suns, followed by a tremendous sustained roar that sounds like 1,000 blockbusters exploding all around you.</span></div>
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FALLOUT_SHELTER_NYChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12785631161599947787noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1773043123220039947.post-87673358536030564082021-02-17T18:54:00.262-05:002021-03-01T00:32:24.915-05:00 Atomic Effects Tests On The American Automobile<p><span style="background-color: black; color: white;"> <a class="timestamp-link" href="http://throwinwrenches.blogspot.com/2013/07/vintage-chevy-bombsthe-atomic-kind.html" rel="bookmark" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; text-decoration-line: none;" title="permanent link">July 14, 2013</a></span></p><span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><a name="2172214647729160845" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "EB Garamond", serif; font-size: 20px;"></a><span style="font-family: "EB Garamond", serif; font-size: 20px;"></span></span><h3 class="post-title entry-title" style="font-family: "EB Garamond", serif; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-transform: uppercase;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: x-large;">VINTAGE CHEVY BOMBS... </span></h3><h3 class="post-title entry-title" style="font-family: "EB Garamond", serif; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-transform: uppercase;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: x-large;">THE ATOMIC KIND</span></h3><div><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: x-large;">Throwin wrenches a visiting blogs post on the cars that gave their lives for science and the cold war during the weapon effects tests. </span></div><div class="post-body-container" style="font-family: "EB Garamond", serif;"><div class="post-body entry-content float-container" id="post-body-2172214647729160845" style="font-family: Lora, serif; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1.7;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="padding: 0px;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghbFUqK38KDzpWw-8vpTVTsiWzGaTYbf4m4fPoI-m-yH8wmWNLb5jOYS2ell7tWK5otZ5TGEX5CIX8pW3qYpa29UC0hI_tXtOLZgVTJrkF4jFN3ZEdxy3Ska_2rSMP8Hv3u69YXAD_yKs/s1600/drstep-5.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><img border="0" height="415" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghbFUqK38KDzpWw-8vpTVTsiWzGaTYbf4m4fPoI-m-yH8wmWNLb5jOYS2ell7tWK5otZ5TGEX5CIX8pW3qYpa29UC0hI_tXtOLZgVTJrkF4jFN3ZEdxy3Ska_2rSMP8Hv3u69YXAD_yKs/w640-h415/drstep-5.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: auto; max-width: 100%;" width="640" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1.7; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">A 1949 Chevrolet Styline DeLuxe sedan, aka Operation Doorstep Test Car #3.<br />Throwin wrenches @blogspot.com wrote this article<br /><br /></span></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghbFUqK38KDzpWw-8vpTVTsiWzGaTYbf4m4fPoI-m-yH8wmWNLb5jOYS2ell7tWK5otZ5TGEX5CIX8pW3qYpa29UC0hI_tXtOLZgVTJrkF4jFN3ZEdxy3Ska_2rSMP8Hv3u69YXAD_yKs/s1600/drstep-5.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; display: block; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 14px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 14px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Its been quite ye a few years since we blew up big bombs and drove real cars on pure not fucked with gasoline cheap as water! All you too cool for history millenials and 90s generation hipsters never bought a gallon of gas under a buck or drove one of these Beautiful all metal..... Not car but Automobile because they are so different then what constitutes a car today. These things driving down the road are not what the designers of yesterday had in mind for American consumers. Cars we bought for 100 bucks as our first cars Built tough they survived weapon testing and prob ably are in one piece still in the ground. Had we used todays cars there would be puddles of plastic blobs that never would of hardened in the desert sun if they weren't buried they would of remained soft enough to push sticks into the mass of plastic. Most of us would give our arms for those cars on the flats today even the four door models,.hell id even take it with the number on it. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 14px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;"> I wrote an article on here about NYC MANNEQUINS VOLUNTEER FOR ATOMIC TESTS, It was a short blog piece on the department store mannequins that were sent from all over to populate the houses and even the cars in the tests, i also did one on Civil Defense Ice Cream Trucks and it included links to various stories related i decided to post up throwin wrenches piece on the blog because i thought it deserved more recognition, and i liked the piece. I tried to contact them to let them know a poorly written blog that english majors love to point out the thousands of grammar mistakes not to mention the freakin millenial douchebag e bay collector civil know it alls who love to correct history guys its cold war civil defense not ww2 stuff so please this year has bee n hell and last february the world seemed ok by the end we were barricaded indoors from a plauge from china we had grimy dirtbags marchin down streets chanting dead crimi nals names like they were a holy apostle and then flippin on tthe police beating and killing them and burning down cities while certain people cheered this loser shit on and screwed up an election and elected forrest gump the loser version. God almighty is it the end i thought we would go in a very quick flash of light vaporized but it looks like wd are all going to suffer for years to come, </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: black;"> This article was linked to a story i did on civil defense ice cream trucks i thought it was a good reminder of good things lol no no i liked the story i tried to contact them but no answer. Check out their blog a automobile themed blog called throwinwrenches@blogspot.com</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 14px;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Check em out and tell them you saw their post on a blog blah blah blah, bit really check it out. I hope everybody is healthy and alive and stays aware of whats going on. Its crazy. Forget the news lose yourself in a good book on the cold war or along those lines visit a abandoned cold war nike missile site or bunker stay busy and safe!</span></span><span style="background-color: black; color: white;"> Now the blog post as written by throwin wrenches. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 14px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 14px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 14px;"><span><h3 class="post-title entry-title" style="font-family: "EB Garamond", serif; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-transform: uppercase;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: x-large;">VINTAGE CHEVY BOMBS... </span></h3><h3 class="post-title entry-title" style="font-family: "EB Garamond", serif; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-transform: uppercase;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: x-large;">THE ATOMIC KIND</span></h3></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 14px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 14px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Today, an antique car with some flair and a period low-slung look is commonly referred to as a <a href="http://chevybombs.com/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">"bomb"</a>. Many enthusiasts prefer a lowered, mid 1930's to early 1950's Chevrolet to customize into their "bomb" of choice, and generally they retain the original features of the cars such as paint color and interiors while lowering and adding modest personal touches. This post isn't about those cars. This post is about vintage Chevrolets that actually had atomic bombs detonated above them in March of 1953. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 14px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;"> </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;"> You may have to enlarge video if using cell phone by turning sideways and using you tube full screen button</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><iframe allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" frameborder="0" height="266" mozallowfullscreen="mozallowfullscreen" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/G2-8f-V5sFY?feature=player_embedded" style="max-width: 100%;" webkitallowfullscreen="webkitallowfullscreen" width="320"></iframe></span></div><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: 14px;">March of 1953 was a simpler time, right? Patti Page's <i>"How Much is that Doggie in the Window?" </i>was climbing up the record charts. The Cold War was gearing up, and the US was playing with thermonuclear weapons in the Nevada desert while military and civilians roamed around the area. Sounds like the good old days.<br /><br />As part of the series of U.S. atomic weapons tests carried out that month nicknamed <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Upshot-Knothole" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Upshot-Knothole</a>, there was a test called "Annie" that involved atmospheric detonation of a 16 kiloton atomic bomb from a 300 foot tower. This test was part of 11 tests at the Nevada Test Site executed between March and June of 1953, and shot "Annie" was unique. It would mark the first time that civilians would be allowed to witness such a test in person, and on television.<br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEsgDPxt6i8d38xEsniWRBED-EF1Wz-xcU_uznwXa6mKYSBokzPaD-GGHIp-E7t2g3_XBP0ef4rG7CtABwHjKUIxWsZjcTjg2kmhDlqiVtBOZ1W1etZXQZXEhfFZ9CjrvVgcxB4JKZ8Ng/s1600/cd1.bmp" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; display: block; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" height="295" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEsgDPxt6i8d38xEsniWRBED-EF1Wz-xcU_uznwXa6mKYSBokzPaD-GGHIp-E7t2g3_XBP0ef4rG7CtABwHjKUIxWsZjcTjg2kmhDlqiVtBOZ1W1etZXQZXEhfFZ9CjrvVgcxB4JKZ8Ng/w276-h295/cd1.bmp" style="border: 0px; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%;" width="276" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfJ5v-2ULfCLzIkr0xlszQFLhxvX18Wpdpw9RXv8SHzkL7LshkCOiZiqZPx7BFHz9swRS1Vwu1tBDK-253JZQVcf20dCz9PaJPHCRo8Q__MX90SRL3OcBkVmacBJcc50FCDOBHF0lSnYY/s1600/800px-OperationDoorstep2-DemolishedHouse3.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; display: block; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span></a></div><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: 14px;">In conjunction with the Federal Civil Defense Administration, a related study called "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upshot-Knothole_Annie" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Operation Doorstep</a>" used the "Annie" test to evaluate the effects of atomic blasts and radiation on common items Americans used in their daily lives. Power lines, electrical and phone substations, houses and even automobiles. We've all seen the iconic image of the house exploding during this test...<br /><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjskVFh6lkBB2glQC4EPJ1GMCDZumkYURPcFcoMrZUxU5GNDYRamjhVCxL11r8uspIL43ibfpThSv27gu7xlzkMjZeaN7HKioMvlnjTDIzx47WmQ245qbYWaB_UxlLy2gMqcGQO66bdQqM/s1600/awesomeness.gif" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; display: block; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjskVFh6lkBB2glQC4EPJ1GMCDZumkYURPcFcoMrZUxU5GNDYRamjhVCxL11r8uspIL43ibfpThSv27gu7xlzkMjZeaN7HKioMvlnjTDIzx47WmQ245qbYWaB_UxlLy2gMqcGQO66bdQqM/w640-h480/awesomeness.gif" style="border: 0px; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%;" width="640" /></a></div><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: 14px;"><br />Its been part of rock & roll music videos, pop art, and Indiana Jones even made reference to <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htq6xvcRZ7w" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">this test in his last film</a>, but that movie was so terrible I won't mention it anymore.<br /></span><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; clear: left; float: left; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 1em; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="padding: 0px;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQgJ2-Z4udHNI6ptbOSuw6YdOQcskJ4oOVZ7k3ckXbTz1BPNhHWbzAObULaKigTCdzB3nmaa_TU7zJbIeu4d77ruJFzwN5O49LuCqpHm1Xm_SFWaJ78JEdHY08vRGJrG0wd-j_rlWguDI/s1600/nuclearfamily.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQgJ2-Z4udHNI6ptbOSuw6YdOQcskJ4oOVZ7k3ckXbTz1BPNhHWbzAObULaKigTCdzB3nmaa_TU7zJbIeu4d77ruJFzwN5O49LuCqpHm1Xm_SFWaJ78JEdHY08vRGJrG0wd-j_rlWguDI/s16000/nuclearfamily.jpg" style="border: 0px; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%;" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1.7; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Insert Your Favorite Nuclear Family Joke Here.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: 14px;"><br />In addition to the houses and mannequin families, there were 50 new and used cars and trucks that made it onto the Yucca Flats site to get a nuclear make-over. I hadn't learned about the automobiles until recently, when images started surfacing on classic car websites. I recognized some of the landscape and knew exactly what had happened to them. Below are a few of the Chevrolets that died in the name of science. Its sad to note than most of them are 1947 models, which pulls on my heartstrings a wee bit.<br /><br /><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWpt-FRRH5h2hDtBXZklKuqDLqTQ9KVcej8gI7iQkIPpduPkbYghaehkOYXuQSBIsm598Ob5ymXQQTLTEtBelAFoaETy__murbdv5hM4VbxPeAQgAGLf1lCF6_63wW8JVj06UpGqcrEYA/s1600/drstep-2.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><img border="0" height="273" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWpt-FRRH5h2hDtBXZklKuqDLqTQ9KVcej8gI7iQkIPpduPkbYghaehkOYXuQSBIsm598Ob5ymXQQTLTEtBelAFoaETy__murbdv5hM4VbxPeAQgAGLf1lCF6_63wW8JVj06UpGqcrEYA/w290-h273/drstep-2.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: auto; max-width: 100%;" width="290" /></span></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixGybgQe_BuhvkZrs5x7qpR-o0X4sD4X4YsT_DK3dVjROWMbtlAAC5b5mp3dInzDrgcUaIaX0Aerq8w051UpS7ByxEY-jxwAoQAhWt6wYKEbRgATQr0ZtkUHM5JnTUq3SviZ54X3lAip4/s1600/1948CHEVROLETFLEETMASTER4DRSEDANNTS2_zps6b23e333.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><img border="0" height="433" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixGybgQe_BuhvkZrs5x7qpR-o0X4sD4X4YsT_DK3dVjROWMbtlAAC5b5mp3dInzDrgcUaIaX0Aerq8w051UpS7ByxEY-jxwAoQAhWt6wYKEbRgATQr0ZtkUHM5JnTUq3SviZ54X3lAip4/w640-h433/1948CHEVROLETFLEETMASTER4DRSEDANNTS2_zps6b23e333.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: auto; 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As far as I know, the debris from these tests was analyzed and buried out in the Nevada test site. Atmospheric tests were banned after 1963 and now we probably do something equally as scarey without anyone knowing about it.<br /><br />If you'll excuse me, I need to run out to the garage & give my old Chevy a few pats for good measure, and run the Geiger counter over it to make sure it doesn't click. You never know where some of those rust-free eBay auto parts came from..</span></div></div>FALLOUT_SHELTER_NYChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12785631161599947787noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1773043123220039947.post-26724883658735315932021-01-31T20:50:00.000-05:002021-01-31T20:50:30.247-05:00(1960) -CIVIL DEFENSE USA - THE SECRET MISSION OF MR SOFTEE<div class="viewitem-panel">
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"> Imagine that its summer, 1959 in a major U.S. city. Let's call it Anytown, USA. Its a sweltering 96 degrees and the asphalt feels like its sticking to your shoes. Mom won't let you back in the house because <i>"its summer, and you need to go out and play with the other kids"</i>. You're tired of playing Wiffle Ball. You're sunburned and sweat is running down your neck like a faucet. You just can't bear another second of this awful heat wave...and then echoing off of the buildings you hear the familiar jingle of the Mister Softee ice cream truck.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><br /> Like every other kid, you quickly run home to BEG your Mother for a few cents for the ice cream man and quickly chase after him before his truck turns the corner and heads to the next block. Once you flag him down, you get your vanilla soft serve cone with sprinkles...and all is right with the world. Wiffle Ball can resume in 5 minutes. Batter up!</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsp3O0xdhUNKJ10uuolFyI3ryINM9Nys_B2f0L8z4YaemzS-lvJi-9XM8e2B31yO2W4QPjSUIDQDvh4kSxtaAgS1r3ufmzMY-VY_vEKAqpxy4krp39gEMFF43OgtmJkkT46wGOhgYzHKw/s1600/mister-softee1.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsp3O0xdhUNKJ10uuolFyI3ryINM9Nys_B2f0L8z4YaemzS-lvJi-9XM8e2B31yO2W4QPjSUIDQDvh4kSxtaAgS1r3ufmzMY-VY_vEKAqpxy4krp39gEMFF43OgtmJkkT46wGOhgYzHKw/s200/mister-softee1.jpg" width="141" /></span></a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">The ice cream truck has offered a sweet summer escape for millions of kids of all ages around the world for over 80 years. It doesn't matter what era you live in or what your age is, frozen desserts are a popular commodity and probably always will be. Here in the U.S. the three big names include <a href="http://www.goodhumor.com/article" target="_blank">Good Humor,</a> <a href="http://jjicc.com/pages/history" target="_blank">Jack N' Jill</a>, and of course <a href="http://www.mistersoftee.com/" target="_blank">Mister Softee.</a> The Mister Softee company traces its roots back to West Philly and 1954. Two brothers named William and James Conway started the company with a Chevrolet panel van, a generator, and a soft serve machine. They sold shakes, cones, and sundaes all over Philadelphia and quickly made a name for themselves. Within two years the Conways branched out, ordered a fleet of trucks and spread across the East Coast. By 1958, franchises grew across the states. A British vehicle fleet manager visited the U.S. in 1957 and liked what he saw in Mister Softee, so he worked out a franchise deal and by 1959 the Mister Softee trucks became a familiar sight in West London and Kent, England. Even today, the company manages to turn a tidy profit by supplying a hungry public with the sweets they crave curbside from Chicago to China! <br /><br /> During their heyday in 1959, Mister Softee ordered 800 ice cream trucks from the Boyertown Body Works in Boyertown, Pennsylvania. This company was located some 56 miles from the birthplace of Mister Softee himself, and was known for their long-standing tradition of quality workmanship dating back to 1872. The demands of the fleet business required a vehicle that was sturdy and dependable, but easy on the pocket book. A Ford truck would certainly meet those demands. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">The order for the Mister Softee ice cream trucks specified that they be built on a 1-ton Ford commercial truck chassis, and utilize their heavy duty 262 cubic inch inline six cylinder engine. The trucks would eventually be fitted with a stainless counter, functional sink with potable water, a generator, and soft serve / freezer machine. The mobile kitchen would be able to serve several hundred people with fresh food without having to replenish supplies back at headquarters.<i><b> It was this capability that made the Mister Softee appealing to Civil Defense coordinators during the cold war era.</b></i> Mister Softee, it appears, would soon roll up his sleeves and help make America safer.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">If the Russians attacked us in the late 1950's and early 1960's, your chocolate malt would simply have to wait until after the H-bomb. You see, many franchise owners pledged their vehicle's use during an emergency as part of the Civil Defense effort. Franchise owners like Raymond Volkejmrding, of Cape Girardeau, Missouri told the local paper that he'd press his kitchen on wheels into service if needed. What's more neighborly than that? You have fresh water storage, electricity for cooking, and refrigeration to keep food and beverages safe from spoilage. All of this plus a loudspeaker to address the public. As it turns out, the Boyertown-built trucks were more versatile than originally thought.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">MR SOFTEES ALTER EGO IN CASE OF A ATOMIC ATTACK THE CONE AND ICE CREAM HEAD WOULD MORPH INTO "CEE DEE"</span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"> Why the hell am I yammering on about all of this stuff? Sarah and I came across a very unrestored example of a Boyertown-built 1958 Ford commercial truck in its original Mister Softee color scheme this summer at the <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/97580249@N08/sets/72157634946541039/" target="_blank">McClean County Antique Automobile Club car show</a>. Besides the fact that we dig old cars and trucks, this thing spoke volumes about the time period it came from. The artwork, the remains of a Civil Defense logo, the simple saying on the back warning motorists to "watch for our children", not just anyone's kids, but "<i>ours</i>". Here's a few shots of this time capsule as it appears today. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">The current owner plans to restore it to functional condition and serve frozen goodies at car shows in central Illinois near old Route 66. Not a bad second life for an old workhorse, eh?<br /><br /> That's the strange tale of the American Mister Softee truck in the Cold War era. Being a Gen-X'er, I admire this relic from a time of neighborly responsibility and civic duty. The past seems like a time when people took things seriously, even selling ice cream. It was deeper than just frozen food...it was a sense of community. Could you imagine a business owner willing to lend his or her equipment, time and fuel to the government today to help the public stay alive during an emergency? I doubt it. <i>Everyone for Themselves</i> has sadly become the American motto of the last several years. <br /><br /> Is all of this worth writing a book about? Not really. Is it worthy of a blog post? Perhaps. All this talk about ice cream and the end of the world makes me want a hot fudge sundae. I think I even hear the ice cream jingle outside. Who's got any change? </span><br />
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The Air Force originally planned for the towers to be continuously manned by twenty-two men. This number proved to be grossly inadequate; by 1957, a crew, normally consisting of six officers and forty-eight airmen staffed each tower. Not only radar men, but also personnel for plumbing, refrigeration, medical and cooking chores manned the stations.<br />
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The Air Force occupied TT-2, 110 miles off Cape Cod, in December, 1955. Tower and crew alike suffered the effects of constant vibration from the rotation of the radar antenna and the diesel generators. The surrounding water, and footings driven into the ocean floor even transmitted distant sounds up the steel legs to be amplified through the whole structure.<br />
The Texas Towers were originally equipped with one AN/FPS-3 search radars and two AN/FPS-6 height finder Conception and Approval, 1952-1953. Fastening radar platforms to the ocean floor was first studied in the summer of 1952. MIT’s Lincoln Laboratory analyzed the feasibility of stationing search and height-finding radars on giant metal towers planted at intervals along the ocean bottom, similar to oil-drilling rigs employed in the Gulf of Mexico. Lincoln Laboratory concluded that a cluster of such Texas Towers might, in fact, profitably serve air defense purposes if erected about 100 miles off the northeastern coast of the Atlantic seaboard. There, elevation of the ocean floor, owing to the continental shelf, conveniently afforded areas shallow enough, yet far enough at sea, to be strategically important. Being fixed installations, Texas Towers could accommodate heavy duty, long-range radars like those used on land, instead of lighter, medium range sets like those used aboard picket vessels. <br />
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That the preponderant amount of America’s high priority targets were situated inside the U.S. northeastern industrial complex—within easy striking distance of the Atlantic coast—made the stakes involved that much more serious. Advance warning furnished by Texas Towers, in combination with other elements of the growing early warning network, including Airborne Early Warning and Control (AEW&C) aircraft together with Navy radar picket ships, promised to reduce America’s vulnerability to surprise attack. Simultaneously, target tracking information supplied by Texas Towers would enable ADC’s control centers to vector fighter aircraft to intercept unknown targets far out at sea, where hostile bombers could be destroyed long before reaching bomb release lines. In conjunction with AEW&C aircraft and Navy picket ships, Texas Towers would contribute to extending contiguous east-coast radar coverage some 300 to 500 miles seaward. In terms of the air threat of the 1950’s, this meant a gain of at least 30 extra minutes warning time of an oncoming bomber attack.1 <br />
ADC found no complaint with Lincoln Laboratory’s recommendation that five Texas Towers be installed. Lincoln obligingly named the five sites best suited for positioning radars: (1) Nantucket Shoal (Lat. 40°45’N., 69°19’W., 80foot depth) 100 miles southeast of Rhode Island; (2) Georges Shoal (Lat. 41°44’N. , Long. 67°47’W. , 56-foot depth) , 110 miles east of Cape Cod; (3) Cashes Ledge (Lat. 42°53’N., Long. 68°57’W., 36-foot depth), 100 miles east of New Hampshire; (4) Brown’s Bank (Lat. 42°47’N., Long. 65°37’W., 84foot depth), 75 miles south of Nova Scotia; (5) Unnamed Shoal (Lat. 39°48’N., Long. 72°40’W., 185-foot depth), 84 miles southeast of New York City. <br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-pZoYAaUpG9A/TiTOMxfDbtI/AAAAAAAADcc/ziVMBtoYuWY/s1600/index_4.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="416px" m="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-pZoYAaUpG9A/TiTOMxfDbtI/AAAAAAAADcc/ziVMBtoYuWY/s640/index_4.jpg" true="" width="640px" /></a></div>In September 1952, ADC voiced its desire that USAF favorably consider the proposed Texas Tower layout for future implementation. USAF first looked into the legality of positioning fixed radar platforms on the high seas, whereupon the Judge Advocate ruled that no violation of international law would result from their placement adjacent to territorial waters. Upon deliberating on the other aspects concerned, USAF, too, became convinced of their necessity and, in the autumn of 1953. authorized construction of all five. Accordingly, funds were budgeted for them during Fiscal Years.1954 and 1955; the Navy’s Bureau of Yards and Docks was vested with authority to conduct ocean surveys, execute design engineering, draw up specifications, and perform the other services requisite to letting out contract work to the lowest competent bidder.2 Groundwork for Implementation, 1953-1955. All manner of things had to be determined before precise specifications detailing internal and external dimensions—could be drawn up for release to competitive bidders. There was the matter of deciding how many and what types of personnel to people the towers with. Types of equipment to install had to be settled beforehand: not only surveillance and communications kinds for operational purposes, but also food preparation and recreational kinds, among others, for logistic and morale purposes. How to replenish, with some regularity, expendable commodities and other supply items, required thoughtful consideration, so as to strike a proper balance between overloading and under-supplying each tower. These and other questions raised by the concept of sticking Texas Towers radars 100 or so miles from shore constituted problems of no mean proportion, which ADC, in the early 1950’s, speedily came to grips with. Manpower totals for sustaining three-shift, round-the-clock operations was no easy figure to compute. Initially, ADC had in mind remoting tower radar data, via submarine cable, from tower to shore, where the weapons control function of vectoring interceptors would be handled by the crew at the parent ACW shore site. This, accordingly, lessened the number of persons whose presence would be needed for tower duty. First, in September 1952, a crew of 22 men was postulated as a likely number for maintaining continuous operations, presupposing that Texas Towers would have no target identification or weapons control responsibilities. This estimate climbed to 25 in August 1953, to provide technicians for servicing the second of two height-finders programmed. A few months later, in November 1953, the personnel contingent was re-estimated at 27, upped next to 41 in July 1954. It then developed that no submarine cable would be strung for remoting, that existing “slowed down” video could not be made to work properly in its stead, and that too much time would be consumed either fabricating or adapting old equipment to this purpose. ADC therefore was obliged to change heart, electing to program control functions at each tower, together with the attendant increase in personnel this entailed. Until near the end of the decade, when the Texas Towers were scheduled convert to SAGE operations (whereby the Lincoln Fine System, AN/FST-2, would be installed to feed lance data automatically from the tower to specified SAGE centers), the Texas Towers were to operate manually, utilizing GPA-37 consoles for vectoring interceptors to their respective targets. Consequently, personnel estimates were upped again in January 1955, this time to 46 in all, to each tower with personnel enough to handle the control function, along with the other conventional surveillance duties. Space enough was allowed during the stages (late 1954-1955) to accommodate upwards of 72 which was fortunate considering that the size of the personnel force continued growing. In mid-1956, after first tower was erected, the staffing structure was hiked from 46 to 49 officers and airmen for sustaining Texas Tower missions. Even this later proved inadequate by five spaces, as evidenced by a staffing pattern in 1957 calling for a total of 54, composed of six officers and 48 airmen. This large a contingent embraced personnel not only to operate and maintain the surveillance, control, and communications equipment, together with specialists in the plumbing, heating, refrigeration, medical and cooking business to help keep body and soul alive,<br />
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Besides the commander, who was ordinarily a captain, something like three to four officer weapons controllers (AFSC 1644), together with half a dozen or so airmen ACW operators working under them, and nearly an equal number of radar repairmen under charge of an electronics officer (AFSC 3044), were assigned each crew. Communications operators and technician repairmen were well represented, too. Each crew was divided into three shifts. <br />
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One thing ADC insisted on regarding personnel manning was the right to form two crews per tower. ADC desired to alternate on-station tower duty so that no single crew spent more than one month aboard a Texas Tower without time, the following month, spent ashore, when the second of two crews took its month’s turn, on a rotational basis. Tower duty, incidentally, counted as time aggregated on an isolated overseas tour. <br />
But USAF was reluctant to authorize the extra spaces that this two-crew plan entailed. The most USAF would bend, was a 1.5 crew manning ratio per tower. ADC persevered in reaffirming need for a 2.0 crew manning ratio, and eventually resorted to improvising the difference by borrowing from its own resources.3 <br />
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Determining what kind of equipment to install was more easily determined, particularly with regard to surveillance equipment. Precedents for selecting search and height-finding radars already existed in the form of ADC’s ground-based AC&W sites. Drawing from its experience with them, ADC picked the FPS-3A long-range search set (modified subsequently to the FPS-20A configuration), and two FPS-6 long-range height-finders. For protection from wind, rain and snow, all three antennas were to be enclosed in arctic tower radomes composed of a rubberized dome sprouting bulbously 55 feet in diameter, and supported underneath by a walled framework. These helped characterize the shape TexasTowers finally assumed, silhouetting a clover-leaf profile on stilts. <br />
Ordinarily, installation of a pair of FPS-6 height finders and an FPS-3A search set entailed separating them at least 150 feet apart, for good reasons. If bunched closely together, there was a real danger of mutual electronic interference being generated when radar antennas faced one another. An exception to this rule, however, had to be made aboard Texas Towers, where surface space, of necessity, was constricted. To minimize chances of mutual interference, yet compactly squeeze all equipment atop a relatively small surface, the FPS-3A search set, sandwiched between the other two, was elevated so as to tower above them. The two FPS-6 antennas, moreover, were pointed in opposite directions, one facing toward land, the other toward sea, being slaved together, and to the FPS-3A, for synchronizing movements. As a final measure of precaution, interference blankers were installed to blot out electronic signals emanating from FPS-6 antennas when pointing toward the FPS-3A.4 Tower-to-shore communications presented a problem different from that of radars. There simply was no network of telephone lines conveniently at hand to tap into, as at ACW stations on land. Notwithstanding this, the question was settled long in advance of tower erection time. ADC originally wanted-to string submarine cables from tower to shore at a cost estimated at first to be $1,000,000 per tower. Follow-on estimates that nearly doubled this amount, however, helped doom the submarine cable plan. Another system equally favored by ADC was adopted for primary point-to-point communications: multiple-channel tropospheric scatter radio, described in more detail below.5 After the size of the forthcoming personnel contingent and of the equipment inventory was, for the most part, known, work proceeded on the platform to accommodate them. Beforehand, the Navy Bureau of Yards and Docks had contracted core-drilling work in July 1954 to the De Long Corporation and the Raymond Concrete Pile Company. Feasibility studies, on 18 June 1954, were farmed out to the architect-engineering firms of Moran, Proctor, Mueser and Rutledge of New York City, and the Anderson-Nichols and Company of Boston. These studies were soon completed and, by October 1954, their results submitted. Hereupon, the Bureau of Yards and Docks contracted with the same firms to formulate the engineering and design work for five towers. They were expressly designed to withstand 125-mile per hour winds and 35-foot high waves. <br />
Texas Tower 2. Responsibility for constructing the first Texas Tower was entrusted to Bethlehem Steel Company. By then, each of the five approved sites had been designated as follows: Cashes Ledge was named TT-1 (for Texas Tower 1); Georges Shoal, TT-2; Nantucket Shoal, TT-3; Unnamed Shoal, TT-4; and Brown’s Bank, TT-5. This numbering sequence, however, was not indicative of site-erection priorities. Indeed, it was TT-2, Georges Shoal that ADC chose for its first Texas Tower. Situated some 110 miles east of Cape Cod, the TT-2 unit, besides enjoying a location in shallow waters that would help facilitate its erection, was to be among the first of ADC’s radar units to tie into the emerging SAGE network.6 <br />
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</div>By the spring of 1955 Bethlehem Steel had completed the first platform at its Quincy, Massachusetts facility. The steel platform was shaped into an equilateral triangle with cropped ends, measuring 210 feet along all three sides, providing about half an acre of surface area. So that it would conveniently house programmed personnel and equipment, combined with stores, reserves, and spare parts essential for long-term stays, the platform was welded into a self contained, compartmentalized unit 20-feet high, subdivided into separate decks. The bottom-most deck was employed mainly for maintenance and storage space, where tanks and pumps were located. The next deck was partitioned into living quarters, a galley and mess hall, administrative offices, heating and air conditioning areas, recreational areas, food storage space, a dispensary and library. Atop this, across approximately half the wedge-shaped platform, was the helicopter landing area. Occupying the rest of the triangle was the uppermost operations deck, some 210 feet long by 60 feet wide, rising 12 feet above the rest of the 20-foot high platform. Inside this deck was the surveillance and control operations area, on top of which would be perched the three radar antennas enveloped by pressurized arctic towers. Equipped with radars and other gear, the platform, weighed 6,500 tons or so.7 <br />
Transporting the first platform from shore to site was a toilsome task. There was trouble enough launching it into water, let alone hauling it to sea. Yet, by June 1955, it was successfully floated and fitted for its sea voyage. Responsibility for towing it to site and then erecting it, was vested in the Raymond and De Long Companies, who embarked with their charge on 12 July 1955. Within two days time, they arrived on site. Hereupon, temporary legs were dropped to the shoal (about 55 feet under water); the tower platform was jacked up to rest on the temporary legs high above the water, while the three permanent legs, or caissons were readied. Each of the three tubular legs was designed for lasting support, measuring over 160 feet long, the first 48 or so feet of which were ensconced snugly into the shoal, the middle 55 feet of which remained immersed in water, and the top 60 or so feet of which rose above the water’s surface, lifting the platform high and out of harm’s way. The legs were versatile enough to be logistically, as well as architecturally purposeful. For inside each steel leg was incased a 140-foot long steel tube six feet in diameter where thousands of gallons of fluid reserves, mostly water and fuel oil, might be stored, surrounded by a jacket of concrete over two feet thick. One of the three hollow legs contained seawater tapped for conversion to drinking water. To this end, distillation equipment was included for producing several gallons of fresh water per minute.8 By the end of 1955, TT-2 was assembled, with bolts tightened and the rest shipshape enough for USAF to assume beneficial occupancy. This it did, effective 2 December 1955. The FPS-3A and twin FPS-6 height radars, as programmed, were brought aboard and installed. They detected targets of B-47 size, flying about 50,000 feet, up to 200 nautical miles away. But the same targets flying at low altitudes say 500 feet—because of line-of-sight radar characteristics, were discernible by radar only up to 50 nautical miles away. It was for this reason, among others, that airborne early warning and control (AEW&C) aircraft later patrolled certain off-shore stations to cover low-altitude radar gaps over looked by Texas Towers, picket vessels, and shore-based radars.9 <br />
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Along with the radars arrived the communications equipment, without which Texas Towers, being unable to transmit their findings to shore, would be incapacitated. Foremost among this equipment came the point-to-point, FRC-56 tropospheric scatter system. Three parabolic-disk antennas, measuring 28 feet in diameter, were mounted vertically, side by side, along the platform edge supporting the operations deck. Two at a time were utilized for transmitting messages, while all three combined received them. The signals were deflected from the tropospheric layer of Earth’s atmosphere, between the 30,000 and 60,000-foot level. A wide spectrum of ultra-high frequencies was thus exploitable without recourse to expensive intermediate relay stations. Normally unaffected by atmospheric disturbances, the tropospheric scatter radio system worked well in the manual system for distances up to about 200 miles, and was intended to serve equally as well for automated SAGE communications later to come. At either end of the system, telephone circuits were patched in so that voice communications could be reliably maintained. <br />
Apart from this primary point-to-point system, there was installed conventional BF radio equipment for tower-to-shore backup communications, and UHF and VHF radio equipment for tower-to-air communications. Teletype, cryptographic, telephonic intercommunications and public-address systems were incorporated as well, together with certain aircraft radio navigational devices. GPA-37 equipment was integrated to facilitate weapons control operations. To power the communications, navigation and radar equipment thus brought aboard, eleven 250 KW diesel generators were rigged so that less than half of them, operating in unison, would supply sufficient electricity during any given time. Air conditioning units were furnished to prevent certain of the equipment from over-heating.10 <br />
Site P-10 (762 ACW Squadron) at North Truro AFS, Massachusetts, was designated the parent station for TT-2. Operational concepts governing their relationships were diligently spelled out in a full-dress operations plan, first published by ADC in July 1954, later revised in July 1956. Other matters were carefully worked out, such as methods for transportation and supply. Two H-21B helicopters per tower were authorized by USAF, four of which were based at Otis AFB and two, at Suffolk County AFB. The twin-rotor H-21B had a theoretical capacity for carrying 10 passengers or 2,000 pounds of freight. When equipped with necessary flotation and survival gear, however, the H-21B’s capacity was cut to eight persons or 1,550 pounds of freight. Other cargo, particularly POL, was furnished periodically by ship. Fuel, food and lubricants,were stocked to provide at least a 30-day reserve; spare parts were on hand for operational equipment to last 45 days On 7 May 1956, TT-2 achieved the status of a limited operationally ready aircraft control and warning station. For purposes of furnishing logistical support for TT-2, and for the others when the need arose, the 4604 AC&W Squadron (Texas Towers) was activated 8 October, 1956 at Otis AFB, Massachusetts, which two months later (December 1956), was re-designated the 4604th Support Squadron (Texas Towers).11 <br />
Texas Towers 3 and 4. Meanwhile, by November 1955, bids for the next two towers had been accepted. Construction contracts for both of them were awarded J. Rich Steers, Inc. of New York City in collaboration with Morrison-Knudsen, Inc., of Boise, Idaho. Except for minor changes (including longer legs and increased storage capacity for diesel oil), these two practically duplicated the configuration and basic arrangement of TT-2. <br />
Because of future commitments to integrate Texas Towers into upcoming SAGE centers during the late 1950’s, ADC picked TT-3 at Nantucket Shoal, and TT-4 at Unnamed Shoal, for its next two towers. This left only TT-1 (Cashes Ledge) and TT-5 (Brown’s Bank) unaccounted for. USAF, for purposes of economizing, was anxious to rid the program of them both. <br />
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At first, ADC resisted all attempts in this direction. Then, in late 1956, because of the promise of increased off-shore radar coverage by coastal AC&W squadrons in the vicinity, where TT-1 and TT-5 were scheduled to go, ADC agreed to drop TT-1 and TT-5 from all further consideration, leaving three towers, TT-2,TT-3 and TT-4, in the program.12 <br />
In 1956 and 1957, work proceeded on TT-3 and 4. Platform and legs of TT-3 were readied by mid-1956, launched the night of 7 August 1956, and towed to Nantucket Shoal and erected that same month. On 29 November 1956, ADC assumed beneficial occupancy. Next month the superstructure and main supports of TT-4 were under construction at South Portland, Maine. These were completed by mid-1957, then, starting 28 June 1957, were towed to sea and placed at Unnamed Shoal. ADC gained beneficial occupancy in November 1957. <br />
The New Life. During these same years (1956-1957), personnel serving at TT‑2 — then functioning manually on a limited operational status—were learning of peculiarities uniquely associated with Texas Tower duty. For one thing, the metal superstructure seemed to vibrate constantly. As the FPS-20A long-range radar antenna (converted from the original FPS-3A model), continued unceasingly to spin (except when out of commission for maintenance), the diesel generators, to grind out their power, and the other equipment, to crank away at their appointed tasks, TT-2 rattled vibrantly from the ordeal. Standing like a three-pronged tuning fork, the tower resonated with noises that spread farther, and amplified greater, than initially occasioned by their source. Matters were not improved when, every half-minute or so during the frequent fogs, the dismal-sounding foghorn croaked out its forlorn message. <br />
Still worse, since it affected operations, was the phenomenon of temperature inversion suffered mostly in summertime. This caused loss of radar coverage, creating, in certain instances, permanent echoes that obscured or distorted radarscope reception. On occasion, equipment components generated electromagnetic disturbances that interfered with, or disrupted, operations of other electronics apparatus. Notwithstanding these and other shortcomings, tower crews became inured to those problems not susceptible of change. And TT-2, effective 17 April 1958, became fully operational manually, then in September 1958, operational as a SAGE unit. TT-3 followed suit in October 1958. TT-4, in mid-April 1959, was declared manually operational, and in April 1960, SAGE operational. Cost of the towers, including platform, legs, radars and communications equipment was reckoned at around $13 million each, and with operating expenses figuring about $1.5 million annually thereafter. TT-3 reported to, and comprised an annex of the 773rd AC&-W Squadron (Montauk, New York);<br />
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Communications Difficulties. While the three towers, by 1959, were thus up and operating, all was not well with them. One of the main difficulties centered on the FRC-56 tropospheric scatter communications system. When functioning in the manual system, employing voice communications, tropospheric radio proved sufficiently effective. But faulty communications ensued after FST-2 equipment was installed to automate communications for SAGE operations, wherein tower-to-shore communications were transmitted and received, not by voice, but by pre-coded, digitally computed electronic signals for automatic assimilation by SAGE computers. Since SAGE shore computers were calibrated to reject all except perfectly accurate inputs, the tropospheric system, as then in operation, simply could not accomplish the task. It was decided about this same time not to replace each FPS-20A search set and twin FPS-6 height finders with Frequency Diversity FPS-27 search and FPS-26 height finder sets, as programmed theretofore, because of the expense involved. The FPS-20A’s at TT-2 and TT-3, instead, were later modified with GPA-103 equipment in late 1960, incorporating certain ECCM devices that reshaped their FPS-20A to the FPS67 configuration. <br />
Several remedies, meanwhile, were suggested to correct the problem with communications. One proposal reverted to ADC’s original plan: stretching a submarine cable from shore to each tower. Another solution proposed by the MITRE Corporation looked more toward refining the existing apparatus, so that tropospheric radio, with the addition of Code Translation Data Service (CTDS), would still bear the burden of primary tower-to-shore transmission and reception. CTDS would tolerate greater signal level variations than existing subsystems. American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T), which frowned on this idea, was approached with a proposal to take charge, on a contract basis, of maintenance and operation responsibilities for the tropospheric system. While solutions to this problem were under consideration, the three Texas Towers reverted to operating as a manual adjunct, employing voice communications, in the far-flung semi-automated SAGE network.14 <br />
In 1960, a proposal was advanced that perhaps would have solved some part of the communications problem, namely the installation aboard Texas Towers of ALRI (Airborne Long Range Inputs) equipment designed to automate the communications process. This plan was soon discarded, for several reasons, not least of which was the dearth of available space for accommodating the ALRI equipment. The same year, all further consideration was dropped of stringing submarine cables, or adding CTDS, leaving only the prospect of AT&T taking charge of maintenance and operations. Antenna realignments combined with improved maintenance, supply, training and operating procedures enhanced tropospheric communications appreciably during 1960, and to all intents and purposes rendered them satisfactory for SAGE as well as for manual operations.15<br />
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Tragedy of TT-4. A problem of inherent stability at Texas Tower 4 loomed so large at this time that it overshadowed all previous Texas Tower problems. Ever since TT-4 was towed to site in mid-1957, it had become an engineering nightmare. To begin with, supports for TT-4 had been made somewhat differently from those fabricated for TT-2 and TT-3, chiefly because of the extra depth involved. Whereas TT-2 and TT-3 stood firmly in relatively shallow waters, 56 and 80 feet, respectively, TT-4 stood in water two to three times deeper, 185 feet to be exact. A series of underwater bracing-s were made to compensate for the extra stresses incurred. But in the process of towing TT-4 to site in June-July 1957, two diagonal braces, vital to lacing the three legs snugly together, were lost. The contractor and the Bureau of Yards and Docks decided to improvise repairs on the spot, rather than return to shore for reworking defective portions. The original design strength, consequently, was not restored. From the time it was erected, Texas Tower 4 wobbled some when under stress caused by brisk winds and waves. Platform motion became the rule rather than the exception. The Navy, in late 1958, conducted underwater surveys of TT-4’s supports, resulting in the discovery that certain collar connection bolts either had sheared or worn loose. The problem was aggravated because the defective portion weakened not only its immediate area, but also shifted considerable stress onto non-defective members. From late 1958 to May 1959, with at least six interruptions due to storms, the contractor effected repairs that stabilized the platform for several months. Four successive storms struck in the winter of 1959-1960, which threatened to undo tower stability all over again. In early 1960, another underwater team was sent down to take stock of things and found certain pins and connections irreparably damaged; whereupon a set of above-water bracings were manufactured and, by August 1960, applied. According to the contractor, original design strength was restored to TT-4 — it could withstand winds up to 125 miles per hour and breaking waves up to 35 feet high. Scarcely a month elapsed, however, when Hurricane “Donna” (12 September 1960) whirled in at forces exceeding design specifications: 132mile per hour winds and breaking waves exceeding 50-foot heights. TT-4, evacuated of all personnel two days before, survived “Donna,” but not without first shaking and rocking a great deal from the impact. Part of TT-4’s superstructure was destroyed; worst of all, below-water bracings were fractured, cutting overall strength to 55 per cent of what it had been built up to prior to “Donna.” Further examination of above and below-water components resulted in a decision to undertake extensive repairs in the spring of 1961. 1 February 1961 was established as the date for complete evacuation of TT-4. Meantime, a maintenance crew of 28 persons -- 14 USAF and 14 contractor repair personnel—were stationed aboard to perform certain repair work. Then on 14 and 15 January 1961, TT-4 was again caught in a storm that battered the tower with winds up to 85 miles per hour and waves up to 35 feet high thrashed its legs. Finally, TT-4 could stand no more. At about 1920 hours the night of 15 January, one of its three legs snapped in half; the remaining two thereupon broke, and the platform, with all hands aboard, sank to the ocean’s bottom.16 <br />
Demise of TT-2 and TT-3, 1961-1964. The tragedy of TT-4, as much as anything else, sealed the fate of TT-2 and TT-3. While both remaining towers were immediately checked for safety and structural strength, and pronounced sound in this regard, their days were numbered. This was first hinted in March 1961, when Lieutenant General Robert M. Lee, ADC commander wrote:17 <br />
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At this time there is no valid reason for abandonment of Texas Towers No. 2 and 3. However, in view of the inherent danger and the current inability to evacuate safely during storm conditions, this headquarters, in conjunction with Headquarters NORAD, will continue to consider the operational requirement for these towers. There is a possibility that, after the ALRI (Automatic Long Range Input) System becomes operational in AEW&Con aircraft, sufficient reliable coverage may be achieved so that the contribution of Texas Towers 2 and 3 to the air defense system will be reduced. In this event, shutdown of the towers, with a resultant elimination of the inherent risk, and saving in money and manpower, may be possible. On the basis of technical advice now available there is no concern for the stability of the towers, but should the result of the engineering survey indicate the existence of any deficiencies, immediate action will be taken to discontinue their operation. <br />
Ultimately, it was decided to do just that: phase out TT-2 and TT-3 when ALRI equipment became operational in the AEW aircraft wing based at Otis AFB, Massachusetts. ALRI, in essence, would automate much more of the off-shore surveillance and weapons control functions along the Atlantic seaboard, and with ALRI-equipped aircraft covering virtually the same area as TT-2 and TT-3, the two towers would become expendable commodities. Until ALRI became operational. However, the command sought to implement the best of all possible escape methods aboard the surviving towers, so that the TT-4 episode would not be repeated. Several experimental methods were considered and all but one were ruled out a — watertight escape capsule. Just such a survival capsule, capable of accommodating seven persons, with food and oxygen enough to last 15 days, was designed by the Electric Boat Division of General Dynamics. Two were made, one for each tower, and they were installed in October 1962. Meantime, tower evacuation criteria were revised, so that all would depart except a seven-man emergency stand-by crew whenever 50-knot winds or 35-foot waves were forecast. A seven-man standby crew was necessitated because of a complication occasioned by Soviet trawlers, which often loitered close by the towers. Without a standby crew to keep guard, Soviet sailors might try to board a fully evacuated tower, then claim possession on grounds of salvage rights. If worse came to worse as regards tower stability during a storm, the seven-man standby crew could scramble into the survival capsule for protection. Even the seven-man crew would evacuate when 70-knot winds, or more, were in the offing. The Coast Guard, in an on-again, off-again commitment, promised to position a vessel, if available, near completely evacuated towers to prevent unauthorized boarding by Soviet mariners. <br />
All this, while the Atlantic Ocean, as if impatient to rid it of the troublesome towers, attacked them from above and below. A succession of storms struck during 1962 and 1963 that forced abandonment of the towers a number of times. Between October 1961 and March 1962, for instance, the towers were evacuated ten times, resulting in loss of the equivalent of 120 operational days. Still later that same year, TT-2 and TT-3 experienced many more evacuations. Also, TT-3 lost at least two inflatable radomes, one of which was blown off the FPS-67 search set in the summer of 1962, and the other of which collapsed over a FPS-6 height-finder in January 1963. Simultaneous with these forces working above, strong ocean currents worked steadily beneath to undermine the foundation of the two towers. Scouring of serious proportions resulted, flushing away rock fill supporting the three legs of each tower down to a depth of 10 feet. Even rock-fill replacement leveled around them in November 1961 failed to stay the action of these underwater forces. The towers, consequently, became far more susceptible to being uprooted by storms of hurricane strength.18 <br />
At last, in 1963, ALRI stations became operational in the Atlantic AEW&C aircraft fleet. The JCS, in January 1963, authorized the inactivation of the towers. No longer having a need for TT-2 and TT-3, and still mindful of the catastrophe at TT-4, ADC ordered the two towers dismantled. TT-2 was first to go, being decommissioned 15 January 1963, then stripped of its communications and electronics equipment. Its three legs were dynamited; but the platform, rather than float to shore, plunged to the bottom, denying one salvage company the fruits of its preparations. It was as if the capricious Atlantic, vindictive to the last, pulled down another victim to its murky bottom. TT-3 was decommissioned 25 March 1963, and shortly relieved of its radars and communications equipment. Special care was taken in mid-1964 to save TT-3’s platform, the bottom deck was pumped full of urethane foam, then sealed, to insure floatation. On 6 August 1964, the three legs were blasted out from beneath it, whereupon TT-3 platform plunged into the ocean; cork-like, it then rose to the surface, enabling salvage crews to drag it shoreward. Once and for all, the episode of Texas Towers in air defense was brought to a close.19 <br />
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1. ADC Historical Study No. 10, Seaward Extension of Radar 1946-1956, pp. 71-75; ADC, Operational Plan for Texas Towers, 20 Jul 1954 [HRF]; USAF Historical Study No. 126, The Development of Continental Air Defense to 1 September 1954, p. 722. Ltr, ADC to USAF, “Extension of Radar Coverage in the Northeast Coastal Area,” 24 Sep 1952 [Doc 91, Doc Vol XIII, Hist of,ADC, Jan-Jun 1955]; USAF Plan, “Planning Guide for Implement of Texas Towers,” 16 Nov 1953 [Doc 93, Doc Vol XIII, Hist of ADC, Jan-Jun 19551; Ltr, USAF to ADC, “Air Defense Program Requirements,” 11 Jan 1954 [Doc 94, Doc Vol XIII, Hist of ADC, Jan-Jun 1955]; Ltr, USAF to Bureau of Yards & Docks, ‘IFY 1955 Advance Planning Directive - Texas Towers,” 8 Mar 1954 [Doc 95, Doc Vol XIII, Hist of ADC, Jan-Jun 1955); ADC Historical Study No. 10, pp. 71-72; Hist of ADC, Jan-Jun 1961, P. 70; USAF Historical Study No. 126, pp. 72-73. <br />
3. See Appendix A for Texas Tower manning structure; Ltr, ARDC to ADC, “Project Texas Towers,” 26 Sep 1952 [Doc 90, Doc Vol XIII, Hist of ADC, Jan-Jun 1955]; Ltr, ADC to USAF, “Texas Towers,” 24 Aug 1953 [Doc 92, Doc Vol XIII, Hist of ADC, Jan-Jun 1955]; USAF, “Planning Guide for Implementation of Texas Towers,” 16 Nov 1953 [Doc 93, Dov Vol XIII, Hist of ADC, Jan-Jun 1955]; IOCY M&O (ADC) to C&E, et.al., “Change to Detachment Manning to be for Texas Towers,” -27 Jan 1955] IOC M&O, Doc Vol XIII, Hist of ADC, Jan-Jun 1955]; ADC, “Operational Plan for Texas Towers,” 1 Jul 1956 [HRF]; Ltr, EADF to ADC, “Information for Guidance of Officers and Airmen Selected for Assignment to 762ACWRON w/Duth Station at Georges Shoal Tower Annex (T-2),” 23 Nov 1956 [HRF]; ADC Historical Study No. 10, pp. 80-82; Ltr, ADC to USAF, “Request for Headquarters USAF Guidance on Texas Tower operation and Maintenance,” 26 S.ep 1956 [Doc 37 in Hist of ADC, Jul-Dec 19561; Hist of ADC, Jan-Jun 1955, pp. 34-38; Ltr and Ind, ADC to ARDC, “Radar Video Remoting,” 12 Jan 1955 [Doc 97 in Hist of ADC, Jan-Jun 19551; Ltr and Incl, RADC to AF Cambridge Research Center, “Use of GPA-37 with Texas Towers, n.d., ca. Feb 1955 [Doc 99 in Hist of ADC, Jan-Jun 1955]ADC, Logistic Support Plan for Texas Towers, 12 Mar 1956’[Doc 140 in Hist of ADC, Jan-Jun 1956]; Hi-s-t-o-T-ADC, Jul-Dec 1956, pp. 44-45; Ltr and Incl, ADC to USAF, “Request for Headquarters USAF Guidance on Texas Tower Operation and Maintenance, 26 Sep 1956 [Doc 37 in Hist of ADC,, 9 Nov 1956 to Ltr and Incl, ADC to USAF, “Request for Headquarters USAF Guidance on Texas Tower Operation and Maintenance,” 26 Sep 1956 [Doc 38 in Hist of ADC, Jul-Dec 1956]; C&E Digest, Aug 1957, pp. 4- 4. Ltr, ADC to USAF, “Texas Towers,” 24 Aug 1953 [Doc 92, Doc Vol XIII, Hist of ADC, Jan-Jun 1955]; C&E Digest, Jul 1957 pp. 13-15. <br />
5. See Appendix B for Texas Tower Equipment List; <br />
Ltr, ARDC to ADC, “Project Texas Towers,” 26 Sep 1952 [Doc 90, <br />
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XIII, Hist of ADC, Jan-Jun 19551; ADC, “Operational Texas Towers,” 20 Jul 1954 [HRF); ADC, Plan for Texas Towers,” 1 Jul 1956 [HRF]. “Operational Plan for Texas Towers,” 1 Jul 1956 <br />
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6. ADC Historical Study No. 10, op.cit. , p. 74; “Last of the Texas Towers, AU Review, Vol XVI, No. 1 (Nov-Dec 1964), pp. 92-94; Hist of ADC, Jan-Jun 1961, pp. 70-73. <br />
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7. ADC Historical Study No. 10, op.cit., pp. 74-76: “Last of the Texas Towers” AU Review, op.cit. , p. 93; C&E Digest, Jul 1957, 13-15. <br />
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9 . EADF, “Operational Plan Texas Tower No. 2,11 1 Sep1955, P. 2 [Doc 98, Docs Vol XIII, Hist of ADC, Jan-Jun 1955 ]. <br />
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10. C&E Digest, Jul 1957, pp. 13-15 and Aug 1957, pp. 1-6. <br />
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11. ADC Historical Study No. 10, op.cit., pp. 76, 82-84; ADC, “Operational Plan for Texas Towers, 20 Jul 1954 and 1 Jul 1956 [HRF]; Hist of ADC, Jan-Jun 1955, pp. 34-36; Hist of ADC, Jul-Dec 1955, pp. 67-68; Hist of EADF, Jan-Jun 1956.pp. 64-68; Hist of ADC, Jul-Dec 1956, p. 64-68 45; ADC, Logistic Support Plan for Texas Towers, 12 Mar 1956 [Doc 140 in Hist of ADC, Jan-Jun 1956.] <br />
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12. ADC, IOC from ADMEL-3, “Trip Report-Texas Towers, [Cont’d] 26 Sep 1955 [Doc 107, Doc Vol XIII, Hist of ADC, JanJun 1955); Msg COOPR 30332, CINCNORAD to USAF, 25 Oct 1956 [Doc 109, Doc Vol XIII, Hist of ADC, Jan-Jun 19551; Hist of ADC, Jul-Dec 1956, pp. 42-43; Hist of ADC, Jan-Jun 1956, P. 37; Ltr, USAF to ADC “Operational Plan for Texas Tower,” 17 Jun 1955 [Doc 80 in Hist of ADC, Jan-Jun 1955]; Msg AFOOP OP D 55901, USAF to ADC- 30 Jun 1955 [Doc 100 in Hist of ADC, Jan-Jun 1955]; Msg ADOPR 3645, ADC to USAF, 2 Aug 1955 [Doc 103 in Hist of ADC, Jan-Jun 1955]; IOC, ADAIE-CA to ADAIE-C, “Construction’Schedule Texas Tower 3 ...” 8 Aug 1956 [Doc 33 in Hist of ADC, Jul-Dec 1956.] <br />
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13. Hist of ADC, Jul-Dec 1955, p. 39, Jan-Jun 1956, pp. 37-38, Jul-Dec 1956, pp.. 41-47; Hist of EADF, Jul-Dec 1956, pp. 69-74, Jan-Jun 1958, pp. 49-50; Hist of ADC, JanJun 1959, pp. 58-59, Jul-Dec 1959, p. 43; IOC, ADAIE-CA to ADAIE-C, “Construction Schedule Texas Tower 3...,” 8 Aug 1956 [Doc 33 in Hist of ADC, Jul-Dec 1956]; Hist of ADC, Jan-Jun 1961, pp. 72-73; C&E Digest, Aug 1957, pp. 1-6; IOC, ADOCO-C to DCS/0, “Report of Staff Visit,” 27 Aug 1956, p. 2 [Doc 32 in Hist of ADC, Jul-Dec 1956]; C&E Digest, Nov 1958, pp. 4-6; C&E Digest, Apr 1959, p. 14; Ltr, ADC t5-USAF, “Operational Survey of the 26 Air Division (SAGE),” 5 May 1959 [Doc 70 in Hist of ADC, Jan-Jun 1959]. <br />
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14. Hist of ADC, Jan-Jun 1959, pp. 59-64, Jul-Dec 1959, pp. 43-46, Jul-Dec 1960, P. 70; Hist of EADF, Jan-Jun 1958, P. 51; Msg EAOCE-ER 1671, EADF to ADC, 11 Sep 1958 [Doc 73 in Hist of ADC, Jan-Jun 1959]; Hist of EADF, JanDec 1959, P. 97; C&E Digest, Nov 1961, p.2; Msg ROV-225, ROAMA to AMC, 3 Jul-IDTT-rDoc 70 in Hist of ADC, Jul-Dec 1960]; Western Elect Co., and USAF SAGE Project Office, Progress Report of USAF Air Defense SAGE System, pp. 19, 85, 1Dec 1957, p. 101; Jul 1958, pp. 35, 43, 118; 1 Jan 1959, pp. 20, 81; and 1 Oct-1959, pp. 19, 85. <br />
1515.Hist of ADC Jan-Jun 1960, pp. 48-49; Hist of ADC, Jul-Dec 1960, pp. 67-68; Joint Test Staff for SAGE Cateory III Evaluation, Final Report, n.d., ca. 1960, p. U-14 [HRF]. <br />
16. Hist of ADC, Jul-Dec 1960, pp. 70-75.: Hist of ADC, Jan-Jun 1961, pp. 69-84; ADC, “Report of Proceedings of a Board of Officers - Loss of Texas Tower No. 4,11 4 Mar 1961 [Doc 110 in Hist of ADC, Jan-Jun 1961]; Senate Hearings, Inquiry into the Collapse of Texas Tower No. 4, Hearings Before Senate Preparedness Investigating Subcommittee of the Committee on Armed Services, 87 Congress, lst Session, May 3-17, 1961 <br />
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17. Ltr, ADC to USAF, “Report of Board of officers, Texas Tower No. 4,” 4 Mar 1961 [HRF]. 18.Hist of ADC, Jul-Dec 1961, pp. 78-85; NORAD/CONAD Historical Summary, Jul-Dec 1962, pp. 23-27; FORM RESTRICTED DATA, USAF, Current Status Reports, Mar 1962, p. 3-20, Apr 1962, p. 3-20, May 1962, p. 3-19, Jun 1962, p. 3-19, Aug 1962 p. 3-18, Sep 1962, p. 3-16 [HRF]; ADC to ADC Staff Agencies, “USAF Current Status Report - September 1962, “26 Oct 1962 [HRF]; C&E Digest, Nov 1961, pp. 1-5; ADC, Prog Mgt Div, Weekly Act Rept, 14-20 Sep 1962 [HRF]; Ltr, ADC to ADCCS, “Status of Texas Towers 2 and 3”,11 28 Nov 1962 [HRF]; Msg BOOAC-E 0480, BOADS to 26 AD, 4 Sep 1962 [HRF]; Msg AFOOP-DEWC 60997, USAF to ADC, 10 Dec 1962 [HRF]; Msg 260OP-GP 2246, 26 AD to ADC, 17 Dec 1962 [HRF]; Also AFOOP-DELWC 66098, USAF to ADC, 5 Jan 1963 [HRF]; Msg 260AC-E 0622, 26 AD to ADC, 11 Jan 1963 [HRF]; Msg 26IFS 01-91/631 26 AD to ADC, 17 Jan 1963.[HRF]. <br />
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FALLOUT_SHELTER_NYChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12785631161599947787noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1773043123220039947.post-34171941137020445982021-01-31T20:04:00.000-05:002021-01-31T20:04:12.683-05:00CIVIL DEFENSE THE FALLOUT SHELTER YEARS "FALLOUT SHELTER GEAR" 1960-1979<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: orange; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><strong><u style="background-color: orange;">THE FALLOUT SHELTER SIGN IGNORED AND FADING ON BUILDINGS ACROSS THE UNITED STATES , PART OF A FEDERAL PLAN TO SAVE THE AMERICAN PUBLIC IN THE EVENT OF A INCOMING SOVIET ATTACK, PART OF A LEGACY WHEN A YOUNG PRESIDENT WENT AND URGED AMERICANS TO BUILD FALLOUT SHELTERS OR PARTICIPATE IN THE FEDERAL ONE IN A ISSUE OF LIFE MAGAZINE THAT SPARKED A SHELTER BUILDING CRAZE THAT LASTED A LITTLE OVER A YEAR AND FORCED CITY,MUNICIPAL,&COUNTIES TO LOCATE BUILDINGS WITH PROTECTIVE FACTORS-PF FROM FALLOUT AND ENOUGH SPACE TO ACCOMODATE A CIVILIAN POPULATION FOR AT LEAST 2 WEEKS FOOD, WATER, SANITATION, BEDDING, TO BE STOCKED PRIOR TO OCCUPYING BY CIVIL DEFENSE SOME SHELTERS WERE STOCKED AND REMAIN THAT WAY, I HAVE BEEN CALLED TO VARIOUS LOCATIONS IN NYC WHILE A BUILDING SUPER OR A PARKING GARAGE OWNER IS CLEANING OUT HUNDREDS OF CRACKER TINS AND WATER DRUMS RUSTED AND BULGING, CIVIL DEFENSE LOGO STILL VISIBLE ON WATER DAMAGED BOXES AND RUSTED WATER BARRELS, I ALWAYS HOPE TO COME ACROSS ONE OF THE MANY CIVIL DEFENSE ITEMS THAT I CONSIDER MY HOLY GRAIL ,I KNOW I WILL CONTINUE TO SEE THIS HAPPEN MORE AND MORE AND STOP FINDING LESS PILLAGED SITES ON MY OWN AS THESE STOCKED RATIONS ARE WAY BEYOND THEIR SHELF LIFE AND ARE HOW NYC RATS STAY HEALTHY BUT ONE CONSTANT IS THE FALLOUT SHELTER SIGN 75% ARE SO SCREWED INTO CONCRETE OR BRICK THEY ARE NOT GOING ANYWHERE AT 50 YRS OLD NOT AS REFLECTIVE AND VIVID THEY STILL ARE A HIGHLY VISIBLE AND ARE PART OF THE NYC LANDSCAPE I HOPE FOR A LONG TIME TO COME.</u></strong></span></div>
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<small style="border: 0px; font-size: 13.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Images: A model fallout shelter, 1955. Image Wiki Commons</em></small></div>
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<b><span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Decades after the end of the<a href="https://www.6sqft.com/a-cold-war-bomb-shelter-is-hidden-under-the-brooklyn-bridge/" style="border: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: inherit;" target="_blank"> Cold War</a>, ominous black-and-yellow fallout shelter signs still mark buildings across New York City’s five boroughs. The actual number of designated fallout shelters in the city is difficult to discern. What is known is that by 1963, an estimated 18,000 shelters had been designated, and the Department of Defense had plans to add another 34,000 shelters citywide.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">While the presence of a fallout shelter in one’s building may have given some residents peace of mind in an era when nuclear destruction seemed imminent, in reality, most of New York’s fallout shelters were little more than basements marked by an official government sign.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">A small percentage of shelters were fortified underground bunkers stocked with emergency supplies, but these were rare and primarily built for high-ranking government officials. The majority of shelters, including nearly all those that were visibly marked, were known as “community shelters,” and by all accounts, they offered little special protection. Inspector guidelines simply indicated that “community shelters” should be kept free of trash and debris and have a ventilation system that can provide a “safe and tolerable environment for a specified shelter occupancy time.” Regulations for the ventilation systems appeared to be open to interpretation, leaving individual inspectors to determine which of the city’s windowless basements would ultimately make the cut.</span></b></div>
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<span style="border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-style: initial; height: auto; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; width: auto;"><img alt="radiation and fallout shelters" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-76318 pib-hover-img" data-pin-url="https://www.6sqft.com/fallout-shelters-why-some-new-yorkers-never-planned-to-evacuate-after-a-nuclear-disaster/" height="421" sizes="(max-width: 780px) 100vw, 780px" src="https://imgs.6sqft.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/14100546/radiation-and-fallout-shelters.jpg" srcset="https://imgs.6sqft.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/14100546/radiation-and-fallout-shelters.jpg 780w, https://imgs.6sqft.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/14100546/radiation-and-fallout-shelters-300x162.jpg 300w, https://imgs.6sqft.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/14100546/radiation-and-fallout-shelters-768x415.jpg 768w" style="border: 0px; clear: both; color: transparent; cursor: pointer; display: block; font-size: 0px; height: auto; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; width: auto;" width="780" /></span><em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><small style="border: 0px; font-size: 13.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: blue;">A December 1961 article in Popular Mechanics featured the above chart to help people determine when it might be safe to leave their fallout shelter and how long it would take to return to “normal life.”</span></small></em></div>
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<b><span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">What is now now clear is that had New York experienced a nuclear attack, most fallout shelters would have done little or nothing to protect residents from fallout. There is also evidence, however, that some New Yorkers had no intention of evacuating to a local shelter either way. In fact, at the time, many city residents appeared as concerned about the negative side effects of fallout shelter living as they were about radiation.</span></b></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><b>In the 1960s, many New Yorkers firmly believed that being trapped inside a windowless basement for days and even weeks with their neighbors may be potentially more harmful than being showered with nuclear fallout. That’s right—for many, <em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">toxic neighbors</em> were considered an even greater threat than toxic fallout.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><b>To be fair, New Yorkers were not alone in fearing the idea of being trapped in a windowless basement with their neighbors for days and weeks on end. By the late 1960s, the Office of Civil Defense was studying the potential social problems raised by fallout shelters, and in some cases, carrying out fallout shelter simulations. In one study, carried out in Athens, Georgia, 63 of the study’s 750 participants left within the first 15 hours. In the end, most studies had similar results with a relatively high percentage of participants fleeing shelters only hours into the simulations.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><b>Nevertheless, the Office of Civil Defense attempted to put a positive spin on the results, noting that participants who were able to stick it out often emerged feeling stronger and more prepared for the event of an actual nuclear attack. They also asserted that with the right precautions, the recognized psychological effects of living in a fallout shelter, which include severe depression, can be mitigated.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><b>A 1963 study by the Office of Civil Defense recognized that “each person will be a victim of severe stresses to his need system so that a new, overall need may emerge, to get out, away from the multiple stresses.” But this need, which the study suggests may be as strong as the desire for group acceptance, a Cadillac, or smoking, can be controlled by ensuring the shelter is a hopeful, calm, and most importantly, well managed environment. Acknowledging that “poor management will result in an inferior adjustment and attitude on the part of shelter occupants,” by the mid 1960s, the Office of Civil Defense had launched a fallout shelter manager training program to ensure that every fallout shelter would also have a live-in superintendent.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><b>Unfortunately, in New York, going crazy or suffering from severe depression in the close company of one’s neighbors wasn’t the only problem residents feared facing if forced to take refuge underground.</b></span></div>
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<img alt="Fallout shelter in 1957" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-76316 pib-hover-img" data-pin-url="https://www.6sqft.com/fallout-shelters-why-some-new-yorkers-never-planned-to-evacuate-after-a-nuclear-disaster/" height="471" sizes="(max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px" src="https://imgs.6sqft.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/14094623/Fallout_shelter_1957.png" srcset="https://imgs.6sqft.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/14094623/Fallout_shelter_1957.png 590w, https://imgs.6sqft.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/14094623/Fallout_shelter_1957-300x239.png 300w" style="border: 0px; clear: both; color: transparent; cursor: pointer; display: block; font-size: 0px; height: auto; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; width: auto;" width="590" /><small style="border: 0px; font-size: 13.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Idealized American fallout shelter, around 1957. Image via Wiki Commons</em></small></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><b>While designated shelters in some neighborhoods were pristine and equipped with emergency supplies, in other areas of the city, they were considered too hazardous to enter. One 1963 article in the New York Times profiled a fallout shelter running under three tenements on East 131 Street in <a href="https://www.cityrealty.com/nyc/harlem" style="border: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: inherit;" target="_blank">Harlem</a>. Reports indicated that the shelters were full of leaking raw sewage, garbage, and rats. “Who’d want to go down there?” one local resident told a reporter. “If fallout came, I’d just run.” Asked about the designated shelter, another woman in the neighborhood said that in it, “rats are as big as dogs and run through the house like horses.”</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><b>With typical New York City resolve, officials noted that if people were already living in the tenements above, they could certainly survive in the basement for a week to 10 days in the face of radioactive fallout. After all, survival not luxury was the objective. According to the article, however, most local East Harlem residents had already concluded that exposure to radioactive fallout would potentially pose fewer risks.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><b>By the late 1970s, many New Yorkers were more concerned about the rotting food in the city’s fallout shelters than they were with a pending nuclear threat and with good reason. In the 1960s, an estimated $30 million worth of food had been stashed away in basements across the New York City area. Two decades later this food had started to attract roaches, <a href="https://www.6sqft.com/find-out-if-a-building-has-rats-using-the-citys-interactive-map/" style="border: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: inherit;" target="_blank">rats</a>, and sometimes, vandals. For this reason, long before the Cold War was officially over, many residential fallout shelters were already being cleaned out and reclaimed as storage spaces or converted into more other types of common spaces from laundry rooms to fitness rooms.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><b>Whatever the purpose, these windowless basement common spaces are still not a favorite of most tenants, but if you happen to have one in your building, it is worth noting that while the average load of laundry takes only 40 minutes, the average stay in a community fallout shelter was expected to last at least 10 days, and in some cases, much longer.</b></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: orange; color: #444444; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: orange;"><b>FAllOUT SHELTER SIGNS CAME WITH A SHEET OF STICK ON LETTERS AND NUMBERS AS WELL AS OCCUPANCY CIRCLES TO ADD TO THE STANDARD SIGN. THIS HERE INDICATES WHERE THE SHELTER STARTS.</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: orange; color: #444444; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: orange;"><b>(THE TEXT BELOW IS THE NATIONAL CODE TO FOLLOW CONCERNING SHELTERS BY THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE)</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large;"><span style="background-color: orange;"><b><u> THE NATIONAL FALLOUT SHELTER </u></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: orange; color: #444444; font-family: inherit;"><u><span style="background-color: orange;">The National Fallout Shelter Sign will be a familiar sight all over the United States next year. It will mark buildings and other facilities as areas where 50 or more persons can be sheltered from radioactive fallout resulting from a nuclear attack.</span></u></span></b></span><br />
<span style="background-color: orange; color: #444444; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><u><span style="background-color: orange; font-family: inherit;"><b style="background-color: orange;">The fallout sign will be used only to mark Federally approved buildings surveyed by architect-engineer firms under contract to the Department of Defense.In awarding the contract for design of the sign to graphic arts studios it was designated the services of a psychologist be obtained to recommend a visual symbol that could be easily identified and remembered. The sign had to meet the psychological requirements of simplicity, easy identification, retention, and arresting color combination.It had to be simple enough to be easily identified by children, non-English speaking persons or others who may not be able to read. The color combination, yellow and black, is considered as the most easily identified attention getter by psychologists in the graphic arts industry. The sign can be seen and recognized at distances up to 200 feet.</b></span></u></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: orange; color: #444444; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><u><span style="background-color: orange; font-family: inherit;"><b style="background-color: orange;">The shelter symbol on the sign is a black circle set against a yellow rectangular background. Inside the circle, three yellow triangles are arranged in geometric pattern with apex of the triangle pointing down. Below the fallout symbol, lettered in yellow against black, are the words Fallout Shelter in plain block letters. Yellow directional arrows are located directly underneath the lettering which will indicate the location of the shelter. PUBLIC FALLOUT SHELTERS</b></span></u></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: orange; color: #444444; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><u><span style="background-color: orange; font-family: inherit;"><b style="background-color: orange;">Public fallout shelters are facilities providing protection from fallout radiation which are intended for use by the general public during emergency periods. These do not include private fallout shelters in residences and other buildings which are not intended to be available to the general public, although the standards are the same for both.</b></span></u></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: orange; color: #444444; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><u><span style="background-color: orange; font-family: inherit;"><b style="background-color: orange;">Public fallout shelters have but one purpose–to provide the minimum necessary protection from fallout radiation in a minimum life-sustaining environment. The minimum protection level for public fallout shelters is PF 40. The minimum life-sustaining environment consists of a supply of drinking water, tolerable temperature and humidity (these are combined in a human comfort factor called effective temperature), sanitary facilities, adequate fresh air, and low-level lighting if natural light is not available in the shelter. These are the basic elements covered in the standard for public fallout shelters.</b></span></u></span><br />
<span style="background-color: orange; color: #444444; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><u><span style="background-color: orange; font-family: inherit;"><b style="background-color: orange;">The standard for public fallout shelters includes a few other items which relate to a general concern for the public safety and welfare, such as access and egress, fire safety, and proximity of hazardous materials or systems. These considerations are addressed in all building codes. They are included in the standard for public fallout shelters, not because they are essential to the purpose of protecting occupants from fallout radiation or to sustaining life, but because prudent design for the public safety requires their consideration. In addition, the standard includes consideration of fallout shelter supplies and their storage. These are not required for a public fallout shelter, but their presence may be desirable in otherwise austere living conditions.</b></span></u></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: orange; color: #444444; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><u><span style="background-color: orange; font-family: inherit;"><b style="background-color: orange;">Public fallout shelters need not be separate, single-use facilities. Indeed, all buildings offer some degree of fallout protection; although some buildings provide better protection than others, and not all have protection factors high enough to qualify as public fallout shelters. This characteristic of inherent radiation shielding in all buildings, with PF 40 or better shielding in some, makes it possible to designate either all or parts of some buildings as public fallout shelters. The buildings or spaces therein which may be designated as public fallout shelters typically have an everyday use, and in that sense they are called dual-purpose shelters. Most public fallout shelters are of this type.</b></span></u></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: orange; color: #444444; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><u><span style="background-color: orange; font-family: inherit;"><b style="background-color: orange;">Since it often is the case that only part of a building will provide protection of PF 40 or better, the suitable shelter space must be identified for users, including its boundaries and limits. Diagrams of floor plans are one way to do this; trained shelter managers offer another way. A Minimum Standard</b></span></u></span><br />
<span style="background-color: orange; color: #444444; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><u><span style="background-color: orange; font-family: inherit;"><b style="background-color: orange;">As is the case with most building standards, minimum criteria which meet the intended objectives are given in the standard for public fallout shelters. The principal reason is to keep the cost for meeting the standard to the lowest possible level and yet meet the desired objectives. Accordingly, there should be no hesitation to exceed the standard for public fallout shelters, provided that the particular building situation and economics permit.</b></span></u></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: orange; color: #444444; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><u><span style="background-color: orange; font-family: inherit;"><b style="background-color: orange;">As indicated in the description of the radiation hazard above, the fundamental objective of a fallout shelter is that it provide protection from fallout radiation for occupants. Suitable radiation shielding is the most important feature that any shelter offers and should be given priority attention in establishing any fallout shelter.</b></span></u></span><br />
<span style="background-color: orange; color: #444444; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><u><span style="background-color: orange; font-family: inherit;"><b style="background-color: orange;">Higher protection factor values, if they can be achieved with little or no extra effort, are especially worthy of consideration. The advantages of minimizing the amount of radiation that a person receives are indicated in the preceding discussion of radiation effects upon living tissue. The ultimate measure of the amount of radiation received, of course, is the protection factor. If protection factors greater than PF 40 can be achieved, they certainly should be provided.</b></span></u></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: orange; color: #444444; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><u><span style="background-color: orange; font-family: inherit;"><b style="background-color: orange;">The maximum effective temperature value for public fallout shelters is higher than would be permitted in spaces used daily. The effective temperature value of 82°F (28°C) for public fallout shelters is an upper limit of tolerance for sedentary people, and should not be exceeded. Fully occupied fallout shelters in warm, humid climates are especially likely to produce effective temperatures in excess of the upper limit value unless large air-flow volumes are provided.</b></span></u></span><br />
<span style="background-color: orange; color: #444444; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><u><span style="background-color: orange; font-family: inherit;"><b style="background-color: orange;">Because heat buildup occurs in a relatively closed fallout shelter at full or nearly full occupancy, a minimum dry-bulb temperature of 50°F (10°C) normally can be maintained without adding heat to the space. Dry-bulb temperatures that are too high will be the usual situation rather than temperatures that are too low for comfort.</b></span></u></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: orange; color: #444444; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><u><span style="background-color: orange; font-family: inherit;"><b style="background-color: orange;">Proper ventilation of fallout shelters is, perhaps, the second most important consideration. Fresh air–that is, oxygen–is essential to sustain life. Ordinarily, this is not a great concern for buildings which are designed for daily use. We take for granted that a fresh air supply is introduced into building spaces through normal ventilation, which may be either natural air flow or mechanically driven airflow.</b></span></u></span><br />
<span style="background-color: orange; color: #444444; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><u><span style="background-color: orange; font-family: inherit;"><b style="background-color: orange;">Fallout shelters present new ventilation problems. First, the very purpose of a fallout shelter usually results in it being a relatively closed space, possibly a basement or an interior space. Natural ventilation is restricted in such circumstances, and mechanical (forced) ventilation cannot be relied upon, because electric power cannot be assured to remain available during and after a period of nuclear attack. Second, when a fallout shelter is fully occupied up to its limit, which is one person in every 10 square feet of floor area, the consumption of oxygen, discharge of carbon dioxide, buildup of unpleasant odors, and heat and moisture buildup from occupants combine to create nearly intolerable conditions in spaces which have poor or no ventilation.For these reasons, the ventilation system of a fallout shelter must be carefully checked. If natural ventilation is to be used, then the air-flow volume must be sufficient to meet the health and comfort conditions as prescribed in publication TR-20 (Volume 3), Shelter Environmental Support Systems, Appendix C, “Ventilation Requirements for Fallout Shelters,” May 1978 edition, available from the Federal Emergency Management Agency. If deficiencies are found, then either the shelter occupancy must be reduced, or forced ventilation must be provided. If forced ventilation is to be used, then a reliable power supply to the fans must be assured to maintain the required air-flow volume.</b></span></u></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: orange; color: #444444; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><u><span style="background-color: orange; font-family: inherit;"><b style="background-color: orange;">A supply of drinking water is the only other feature of public fallout shelters which is essential to sustain life for periods longer than just a few days. Accordingly, provision must be made for the needed water. 3.5 gallons of potable water per shelter occupant are to be provided. This amount is based upon a 14-day shelter stay-time, or one quart per day, and is for drinking purposes only. No other uses are included in the base amount. If other uses of water are expected in the fallout shelter, such as for sanitary purposes, then the storage capacity must be increased.There are several ways in which the required drinking water can be provided in a fallout shelter. The one way not to be counted upon is the public water main. Public water supply systems are likely to be disrupted during a period of nuclear attack–either due to power failure which could render pumping stations inoperative or due to breakage of the water lines at some remote point. This means that the emergency water supply must be at or near the fallout shelter–either storage tank(s) or a well at the site. Water can be stored either in permanently installed tanks or in individual containers. Occasionally, it will be possible to obtain the required water from that trapped in building lines. In such cases, a suitably located outlet valve will be needed to withdraw the water.</b></span></u></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: orange; color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><u><strong>Section 1.0. The purpose of this standard is to establish minimum criteria for application to the design, construction, or designation of a space in a building or other facility as a fallout shelter.</strong></u></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: orange;"></span><span style="background-color: orange; color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><u><strong>FALLOUT SHELTER is any room, structure, or space designated as such and providing its occupants with protection at a minimum protection factor (PF) of 40 from fallout radiation resulting from a nuclear explosion.</strong></u></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: orange; color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><u><strong>Section 9.0. Structural design of the fallout shelter shall comply with the local building codes. No special structural arrangements are required for public fallout shelters.</strong></u></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: orange; color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><u><strong>Section 15.0. Consideration shall be given to fallout shelter supplies and their storage, but provision of such supplies is not required. Supplies and other storage considerations for public fallout shelters are discussed in publication CPG 1-19, Guidance for Development of An Emergency Fallout Shelter Stocking Plan, July 1978, available from the Federal Emergency Management Agency.</strong></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>The <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_World_War_II_Army_Airfields" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="New York World War II Army Airfields">Suffolk County Army Air Field</a> was built in 1943 as a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Army_Air_Forces" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="United States Army Air Forces">United States Army Air Forces</a> sub-base of nearby <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitchel_AFB" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Mitchel AFB">Mitchel Field</a>. Later assigned to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Air_Force" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="First Air Force">First Air Force</a>, the 437th Army Air Force Base Unit defended the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="New York City">New York City</a> area and flew antisubmarine patrols. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-war" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Post-war">Post-war</a>, the airfield was conveyed to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suffolk_County,_New_York" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Suffolk County, New York">Suffolk County</a> for use as a civilian airport, but to include a reversal clause if future military use was ever needed.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Renamed when the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Air_Force" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="United States Air Force">United States Air Force</a> reclaimed the airport in 1951, Suffolk County Air Force Base was part of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Air_Defense_Force" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Eastern Air Defense Force">Eastern Air Defense Force</a>'s defense of the<a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_metropolitan_area" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="New York City metropolitan area">NYC metro area</a>. The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_National_Guard" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Air National Guard">Air National Guard</a>'s <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/103d_Fighter_Wing" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="103d Fighter Wing">103rd Fighter-Interceptor Wing</a> (103 FIW), along with the 118th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron and its <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P-47" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="P-47">F-47N Thunderbolts</a>,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-4" style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_S._Gabreski_Air_National_Guard_Base#cite_note-4" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[4]</a></sup> was federalized on March 2, 1951 and moved from <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainard_Field" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Brainard Field">Brainard Field</a>, Connecticut, to Suffolk County AFB on June 1. The 103 FIW was returned to state control on February 6, 1952 and remained briefly at Suffolk County until replaced by the 45th and 75th Fighter-Interceptor Squadrons in November 1952, flying the <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F-86_Sabre" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="F-86 Sabre">F-86 Sabre</a> as part of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/23d_Wing" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="23d Wing">23rd Fighter-Interceptor Group</a> (23 FIG).</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>In 1955, the 23 FIG was reassigned to <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presque_Isle_AFB" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Presque Isle AFB">Presque Isle AFB</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maine" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Maine">Maine</a> and replaced by the newly activated <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/52nd_Fighter_Wing" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="52nd Fighter Wing">52nd Fighter-Interceptor Wing</a> (52 FIW), which flew under various designations from Suffolk County AFB until 1969, with the 2d and 5th Fighter-Interceptor Squadrons flying <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F-94_Starfire" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="F-94 Starfire">F-94 Starfire</a>, <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F-101_Voodoo" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="F-101 Voodoo">F-101 Voodoo</a> and <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F-102_Delta_Dagger" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="F-102 Delta Dagger">F-102 Delta Dagger</a> interceptors. In 1963, the 52 FIW was renamed the 52nd Fighter Wing (Air Defense) and became part of the <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Air_Defense_Sector" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="New York Air Defense Sector">New York Air Defense Sector</a> (NY ADS), the NY ADS being one of four USAF air defense sectors employing the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semi-Automatic_Ground_Environment" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Semi-Automatic Ground Environment">Semi-Automatic Ground Environment</a> (SAGE) system.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Suffolk County AFB was also the main support base for the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suffolk_County_Missile_Annex" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Suffolk County Missile Annex">Suffolk County Missile Annex</a>, a nearby USAF <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIM-10_Bomarc" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="CIM-10 Bomarc">CIM-10 Bomarc</a> surface-to-air missile <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Launch_complex" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Launch complex">launch complex</a> for the defense of the New York City metropolitan area under the control of a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missile_launch_control_center" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Missile launch control center">missile launch control center</a> at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McGuire_Air_Force_Base" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="McGuire Air Force Base">McGuire Air Force Base</a>, New Jersey.</b></span></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.399999618530273px; text-align: start;">As a result of funding shortfalls for the</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.399999618530273px; text-align: start;"> </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.399999618530273px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none;" title="Vietnam War">Vietnam War</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.399999618530273px; text-align: start;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.399999618530273px; text-align: start;">that resulted in the closure of numerous stateside air force bases and naval air stations, Suffolk County AFB deactivated in 1969 and the</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.399999618530273px; text-align: start;"> </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_installation" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.399999618530273px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none;" title="Military installation">military installation</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.399999618530273px; text-align: start;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.399999618530273px; text-align: start;">was again transferred to the Suffolk County government for use as a civilian airport.</span> </b></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: white; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: blue;"><b>SUFFOLK COUNTY AIR FORCE BASE WAS NOT A RUN OF THE MILL AFB. THE JOB OF THESE AIRMEN ,WACs WAS TO DEFEND THE NEW YORK METROPOLITAN , LONG ISLAND AREA FROM AIRBORNE THREATS LIKE A SOVIET ATTACK. TODAY IN THIS AGE OF THREATS OF ALL KINDS WE DO NOT HAVE THE EQUIVALENT OF A SUFFOLK COUNTY AFB (SCAFB) . THEIR JOB AS A AIR DEFENSE COMMAND WING WAS TO BE READY AT MOMENTS NOTICE TO GET AIRBORNE TO EITHER REPEL AN ATTACK OR TO AVOID BEING DESTROYED ON THE GROUND DURING AN ATTACK. THIS TOOK A LEGION OF SUPPORT CREWS FROM AIRCRAFT MAINTENANCE , WEAPON HANDLERS, AIR POLICE AND MANY MORE WORKING AS A TEAM. SUFFOLK BOASTED SOME OF THE BEST AIRCREWS AND FIRE SUPPRESSION UNITS IT ALSO HAD ONE OF PROBABLY THE BEST K-9 PATROL TEAMS IN THE AIR FORCE, NUCLEAR WEAPONS WERE CARRIED BY ALERT AIRCRAFT AND WERE HOUSED ON BASE IN VARIOUS VARIETIES WHICH MADE SCAFB NOT YOUR EVERY DAY MILITARY INSTALLATION , IF YOU TRIED TO ENTER THIS BASE DURING THE COLD WAR YOU MAY HAVE LOST YOUR LIFE. I NEVER MET THE MEN WHO WERE STATIONED HERE BUT I HAVE READ THEIR STORIES OF LIFE ON THE STRATEGIC AIR COMMAND ADC AIRBASE IF YOUR INTERESTED GO TO FACEBOOK AND LOOK UP SUFFOLK COUNTY AIR FORCE BASE AND ASK TO JOIN OR JUST READ SOME OF THESE AMAZING STORIES ,YOU WILL COME AWAY AMAZED AND WITH NEW FOUND RESPECT FOR THESE MEN WHO WOULD OF GAVE THEIR LIVES TO A COLD WAR JUST AS IF IT WAS A DECLARED WAR , </b></span></span></td></tr>
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<b style="background-color: red; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-large; text-align: center;">THIS ROCKET FIRED OVER THE HEADS OF VOLUNTEER PILOTS WAS THE STANDARD AIR 2 AIR 12 PLUS KILOTON ROCKET CARRIED BY F-106 DELTA DARTS AND F-101 VOODOO INTERCEPT AIRCRAFT TO TAKE DOWN RUSSIAN BOMBERS INTENT ON DROPPING THEIR ATOMIC ORDNANCE ON MILITARY TARGETS,CITIES,&INFRASTRUCTURE. RUSSIAN TACTICS DURING THE COLD WAR WOULD SEEK TO PIERCE US AIRSPACE AND TARGET MILITARY, THEN MANUFACTURING CENTERS AND THEN U.S. CITIES. THE SUFFOLK COUNTY AFB JET AIRCRAFT INTERCEPTORS CARRIED THESE ROCKETS LIVE AND WERE ON CONSTANT ALERT WAITING TO BE LAUNCHED ON MINUTES NOTICE, THESE WEAPONS CARRIED ALOFT BY SOME OF THE BEST USAF PILOTS OF THE DAY HAD 3 OR MORE BROKEN ARROW EVENTS A TERM USED TO DESCRIBE THE LOSS OF A NUCLEAR WEAPON THESE WERE THE AIR 2 AIR GENIE CARRIED BEING TORN FROM THE AIRCRAFT LOST IN LONG ISLANDS PINE BARRENS ONLY TO BE FOUND WEEKS LATER BY HUNTERS AND RETRIEVED BY USAF TEAMS. AND THE TRAGIC ACCIDENT OF ONE OF SUFFOLKS F-101 VOODOOS THAT SUFFERED A CATASTROPHIC MALFUNCTION OVER THE PECONIC BAY, JUST EAST OF THE AIRBASE. THE JET BROKE APART AND WAS NOT FOUND AS WERE THE PILOT AND BACKSEATER THEY ALONG WITH THE NUCLEAR WEAPON IT CARRIED ARE LOST TO THIS DAY, IT IS STILL MISSING AND PROBABLY BURIED IN THE MUD OF THE PECONIC BAY, THESE ROCKETS WERE CAPABLE OF TURNING UP THEIR YIELD TO EXPLODE WITH LARGER ATOMIC YIELD,USAF TEXTBOOK TACTICS WARN AIR CREWS TO GET AWAY BY USING A SHALLOW DESCENT TO AVOID BEING DOSED BY THE WEAPONS RADIOACTIVE PULSE, SO I WONDER IF THESE BRAVE AIRMEN AND ONE CAMERA MAN THAT WERE UNDER THIS ATOMIC DETONATION GOT A GOOD DOSE OF GAMMA RADIATION THAT MAY OF EVENTUALLY LED TO THE POSSIBILITIES OF CANCER SINCE THERE WAS NO PROTECTION FROM THE EFFECTS OF THIS ATOMIC DEVICE . ALTHOUGH ITS A GREAT PR STUNT FOR THE NUCLEAR AIR FORCE OF ITS DAY AND A GREAT PIECE OF HISTORY FOR THIS BLOG.</b></div>
FALLOUT_SHELTER_NYChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12785631161599947787noreply@blogger.com1Mercury, NV 89023, USA37.1768273 -116.04639637.122037730962838 -116.11506055078125 37.231616869037161 -115.97773144921875tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1773043123220039947.post-34645727298377605212020-10-24T12:51:00.004-04:002020-10-24T13:00:09.701-04:0010/24/2020 HOW NUCLEAR WAR WAS WAGED IN THE DAYS OF SAC<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/juNEWW__LIY" width="320" youtube-src-id="juNEWW__LIY"></iframe></div><br /> THIS VIEW OF THE RITUAL OF WAR IN THE DAYS OF SAC (STRATEGIC AIR COMMAND) IS NOT A VERY ACCURATE PICTURE ANYMORE, ONE THING MOST OF THE ASSETS AND BASES AND EYES ON THE WORLD HAVE CHANGED WE NOW DEPEND ENTIRELY ON OUR SUBMARINES AND ICBMS TO WAGE A NUCLEAR WAR. BOMBER WINGS AND INTERCEPTOR AIRCRAFT HAVE BEEN GOING TO THE SCRAPYARD SINCE THE 1970S SAC WAS RETIRED IN THE 90S I DONT EVEN THINK THERE IS A MILITARY FORCE DEDICATED TO PROTECTING THIS NATION FROM HOSTILE ATTACK AND IF THERE WAS...IM SURE SOME DEMOCRAT WOULD SAY ITS NOT RIGHT AND POLITICALLY INCORRECT TO BE ON THE DEFENSIVE.. A SAD TIME TO BE AN AMERICAN IF BIDEN/ KAMALA GET ELECTED IT WILL BE HORRIBLE TO BE AMERICAN.<p></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/juNEWW__LIY" width="320" youtube-src-id="juNEWW__LIY"></iframe></div><br /><p></p>FALLOUT_SHELTER_NYChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12785631161599947787noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1773043123220039947.post-90638580995901629902020-09-02T01:29:00.000-04:002021-01-31T20:29:22.797-05:00(1966) THE WAR GAME - THE MOST REALISTIC ATOMIC WAR MOVIE EVER MADE IT IS STILL BANNED<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: yellow;">Made in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black-and-white" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; text-decoration: none;" title="Black-and-white">black-and-white</a> with a running time of just under 50 minutes, <i>The War Game</i> depicts the prelude to and the immediate weeks of the aftermath to a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Union" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; text-decoration: none;" title="Soviet Union">Soviet</a> nuclear attack against Britain. A Chinese invasion of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Vietnam" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; text-decoration: none;" title="South Vietnam">South Vietnam</a> starts the war; tensions escalate when the United States authorises <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tactical_nuclear_weapon" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; text-decoration: none;" title="Tactical nuclear weapon">tactical nuclear warfare</a> against the Chinese. Although the Soviet and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Germany" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; text-decoration: none;" title="East Germany">East German</a> forces threaten to invade <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Berlin" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; text-decoration: none;" title="West Berlin">West Berlin</a> if the US does not withdraw that decision, the US does not acquiesce to Communist demands and occupies West Berlin; two US Army divisions attempt to fight their way into Berlin, but the Russian and East German forces defeat them in battle. The US President launches a pre-emptive, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; text-decoration: none;" title="NATO">NATO</a> tactical nuclear attack. A limited nuclear war erupts between the West and the East; missiles strike Britain.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: yellow;">The chaos of the prelude to the attack, as city residents are forcibly evacuated to the country, leads to the story's centre in <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rochester,_Medway" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; text-decoration: none;" title="Rochester, Medway">Rochester</a>, which is struck by an off-target missile aimed at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gatwick_Airport" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; text-decoration: none;" title="Gatwick Airport">Gatwick Airport</a>. Key targets in Kent are <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAF_Manston" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; text-decoration: none;" title="RAF Manston">RAF Manston</a> and the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maidstone#Army_barracks" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; text-decoration: none;" title="Maidstone">Maidstone barracks</a>, which are mentioned in scenes showing immediate effects of the attack. The results of that missile's explosion are the instant <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_blindness" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; text-decoration: none;" title="Flash blindness">flash blindness</a> of those who see the explosion, the resultant <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firestorm" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; text-decoration: none;" title="Firestorm">firestorm</a> caused by the heat wave, and the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effects_of_nuclear_explosions" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; text-decoration: none;" title="Effects of nuclear explosions">blast front</a>; later, the collapse of society occurs because of <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiation_sickness" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; text-decoration: none;" title="Radiation sickness">radiation sickness</a> and exhaustion of medical supplies, psychological damage and consequent escalating suicides, and destroyed infrastructure; the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Army" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; text-decoration: none;" title="British Army">British Army</a> burns <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corpse" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; text-decoration: none;" title="Corpse">corpses</a>, while police shoot looters during <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_riot" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; text-decoration: none;" title="Food riot">food riots</a>. The film ends bleakly on the first <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_Day" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; text-decoration: none;" title="Christmas Day">Christmas Day</a> after the nuclear war, held in a ruined church with a disheveled vicar who futilely attempts to provide hope to his traumatised and injured congregation and concludes with an instrumental version of the hymn <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_Night" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; text-decoration: none;" title="Silent Night">Silent Night</a> playing over the closing credits.</span></div>
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<strong><u><span style="background-color: orange; color: black; font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">DURING THE FALLOUT SHELTER SURVEY A HOME WOULD RECIEVE A PACKAGE
WITH BOOKLETS A MAP AND A RATING OF HOW MUCH PROTECTION AGAINST A
ATOMIC ATTACK THEY COULD EXPECT OUT OF THEIR HOME IN THE FORM OF A
PF-RATING (SHOWN AND EXPLAINED BELOW) ONE BOOKLET THAT MADE ITS
ROUNDS AND WAS ONE OF THE LAST OF CIVIL DEFENSE BOOKLETS WAS "IN
TIME OF EMERGENCY" IT IS SOMETIMES USED TO THIS DAY AROUND THE
UNITED STATES AND A CIVIL DEFENSE MOVIE WAS MADE WHICH YOU CAN
WATCH BELOW SUFFOLK COUNTYS COMMUNITY SHELTER PLAN WAS MAILED OUT
IN THE SAME WAY AS THE EXAMPLE "TRI COUNTY CSP" ABOVE AND INCLUDED
THE BOOKLET "IN TIME OF EMERGENCY" AND AFTER A DECADE OF TRYING TO
COME UP WITH A WORKABLE PLAN MASS MAILED SUFFOLK COUNTYS SOMETIME
IN 1971!</span></u></strong>
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<strong><u><span face=""Trebuchet MS", sans-serif" style="background-color: orange; color: black; font-size: x-large;">"IN TIME OF EMERGENCY" 1968 DOD/OCD
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<strong><u><span face=""Trebuchet MS", sans-serif" style="background-color: orange; color: black; font-size: x-large;">AND HERE IS ONE OF THE OTHER PARTS OF THE COMMUNITY SHELTER PLAN THE
MAPS OF PUBLIC SHELTERS TO GO TO IF YOUR HOME RECIEVED A POOR PROTECTION
FACTOR OR A FORM LETTER LIKE THE ONE AT THE BOTTOM OF THIS POST, INSIDE
WAS A MAP OF YOUR COUNTY AND THE BUILDINGS DESIGNATED AS RADIATION AND
BLAST RESISTANT AND HAD ENOUGH VENTILATION PER PERSON, A HOME SHELTER
WOULD BE A BETTER SURVIVAL CHOICE AND HOMES THAT CIVIL DEFENSE OFFICIALS
FOUND PREPARED RECIEVED A STICKER STATING THEIR COMPLIANCE WITH OCD
RECOMMENDATIONS FOR SURVIVAL</span></u></strong>
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NEWSPAPER FORMAT WAS USED SO COST WAS KEPT LOW THOUGH I DO NOT THINK
THEY PLANNED FOR THESE SHELTER PLANS TO LAST BY PUTTING THEM ON
NEWSPAPER GRADE PAPER AND MOST OF THESE SHELTER PLANS WERE DONE
BECAUSE IT WAS MANDATORY THAT EACH COUNTY OR PROVINCE PLANNING BOARD
DO A SHELTER SURVEY AND ASSESMENT AND A WORKABLE PLAN WITH STOCKED
SHELTERS SUFFOLK COUNTY'S WAS COMPLETED IN THE EARLY 1970's AND HAD
SHELTERS PLANNED IN NON STOCKED BANK VAULTS AND EVEN A
DECOMMISSIONED NIKE MISSILE BATTERY MAGAZINE THAT NO LONGER EXSISTED
AT PRINTING TIME AND WENT WITH OUT STOCKING SHELTERS AND PLANNING
FOR MORE THAN HALF OF SUFFOLKS RESIDENTS TO BUILD AND STOCK THEIR
OWN.</strong></span>
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<span style="background-color: orange; color: black; font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><u><strong>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?]</strong></u></span>
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<span style="background-color: orange; color: black; font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><u><strong>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.[1] In the U.S. in September
1961, the federal government started the Community Fallout Shelter
Program.[2][3] (A letter from President Kennedy advising the use of
fallout shelters appeared in the September 1961 issue of Life
magazine.)[4]</strong></u></span>
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<span style="background-color: orange; color: black; font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><u><strong>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.[5]</strong></u></span>
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<span style="background-color: orange; color: black; font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><u><strong>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.[6][7][8]</strong></u></span>
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<span style="background-color: orange; color: black; font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><u><strong>Switzerland built an extensive network of fallout shelters, not only
through extra hardening of government buildings such as schools, but
also through a building regulation that ensured that all residential
building built after 1968 contained a nuclear shelter able to withstand
a blast from a 50 megatonne explosion at a distance of 700 metres.
Coupled with this, there was the legal requirement for all supermarkets
to store at least one year's supply of canned goods, etc., in
blast-proof bunkers in the mountains, along with the requirement of one
year's supply of oil; cilivians were required to store at least three
weeks of food stuffs in their own shelter. This nation has the highest
ratio of shelter space to national population of any country. All these
shelters are capable of withstanding nuclear fallout and biological or
chemical (NBC) attacks. The largest buildings usually have dedicated
shelters tunneled into solid rock. Similar projects have been undertaken
in Finland, which requires all buildings with area over 600 m² to have
an NBC shelter, and Norway, which requires all buildings with an area
over 1000 m² to have a shelter.[9]</strong></u></span>
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<span style="background-color: orange; color: black; font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><u><strong>The former Soviet Union and other Eastern Bloc countries often designed
their underground mass-transit and subway tunnels to serve as bomb and
fallout shelters in the event of an attack.</strong></u></span>
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<span style="background-color: orange; color: black; font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><u><strong>Interest in fallout shelters has largely dropped, as the perceived
threat of global nuclear war reduced after the end of the Cold War. In
Switzerland, most residential shelters are no longer stocked with the
food and water required for prolonged habitation and a large number have
been converted by the owners to other uses (e.g., wine cellars, ski
rooms, gyms). However, there has been renewed interest seen since
2001[citation needed]. These shelters also provide a haven from natural
disasters such as tornadoes and hurricanes, although Switzerland is
rarely subject to such natural phenomena.</strong></u></span>
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<strong><u><span style="background-color: orange; color: black; font-family: Courier New; font-size: x-large;">HERE ANOTHER COMMON BOOKLET THAT WAS SENT OUT WITH SHELTER MAPS AND
INFO FROM THE LOCAL CIVIL DEFENSE OFFICE, THIS PARTICULAR BOOKLET HAD
THE HOME PF- PROTECTION FACTOR AND PLANS TO ADD A SHELTER TO THE HOME
ALONG WITH "IN TIME OF EMERGENCY" SUBURBAN RESIDENTS WOULD RECIEVE THIS
WITH THE COMMUNITY SHELTER PLAN THAT EVERY US COUNTY MAILED OUT TO ITS
RESIDENTS.</span></u></strong>
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<strong><span style="font-size: x-large;">THE FALLOUT PROTECTION IN YOUR HOME</span></strong>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">This booklet is about fallout protection. It will tell you what radioactive
fallout is and how you can improve your protection against it if this country
were ever attacked with nuclear weapons. But first of all, because your home
has a basement you already have some fallout protection. Let's see what that
protection is:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Entered in the space labeled Basement "PF" are two numbers which tell you the
fallout protection that was calculated for the "center" of your basement and
the "best corner" of your basement. Information on the box labeled "Added
Weight", is on page 20 of this booklet.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">The "PF" above the box stands for "Protection Factor." Before going into the
details of what your "Protection Factor" numbers mean, let's talk for a moment
about what fallout is.</span><br />
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<strong><u><span style="font-size: x-large;">WHAT IS RADIOACTIVE FALLOUT?</span></u></strong><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">When a nuclear weapon is exploded close to the ground, dirt and other debris
are drawn up into the mushroom cloud and pick up the radioactivity created by
the explosion. The heaviest pieces of dirt and debris drop back to earth
within a few miles of the explosion. But the lighter pieces are carried by the
winds for many miles before drifting back to earth.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">These radioactive particles are called "fallout." Any part of the United
States might be covered with deadly or dangerous amounts of radioactive
fallout, depending on which way the winds were blowing and the size and number
of nuclear weapons exploded. The radioactivity could cause serious health
damage or fatal injury to unprotected persons. In a nuclear attack, the blast,
heat, and fire from the explosions would be very destructive, but the
destruction would be in areas near the explosions. Radioactive fallout,
though, could spread a thin layer over millions of square miles.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Radiation would come from the fallout wherever it settled -- the ground,
trees and bushes, or the roof of your home. Fallout does not behave like a
gas. In areas that would be affected by dangerous amounts of fallout, the
fallout particles would look like dirt or hand and you may see them after they
have settled on the ground or other places. The exact amount of radiation
given off by the particles can be measured only by special instruments.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">HOW CAN YOUR PROTECTION BE IMPROVED?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">There are three ways of improving your protection against fallout -- time,
distance, and getting some heavy material between you and the fallout (called
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<span style="font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-size: x-large;">The numbers are given in terms of a "Protection Factor" or PF. This is the
relation between the amount of fallout radiation which would be received by a
completely unprotected person compared to the amount which would be received
by a person in a fallout shelter. For example, a person in a fallout shelter
with a PF of 40 would receive about one-fortieth (or 2½ percent) of the
radiation he would be exposed to if he were completely unprotected. The higher
thePF for your home, the more protection your basement affords against
radiation.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Time -- Radioactivity decreases rapidly at first. After an attach, the
radiation would be most intense during the first few days. Even so, radiation
protection may be needed for an extended period -- days or weeks.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">2. Distance -- The amount of radiation is less the further away you are from
the source of radiation.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">3. Shielding--Any material that is put between a person and the source of
radiation cuts down on the amount of radiation that reaches the person. The
thicker and heavier the material, the better the protection.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">In the event of an attach, you have little control over time and distance,
but YOU CAN DO SOMETHING TO IMPROVE YOUR PROTECTION BY MEANS OF
SHIELDING.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">It is the principle of shielding that is employed in fallout shelters. Under
the guidance of the Office of Civil Defense, a system of fallout shelters is
being developed throughout the nation. It consists of public shelters, private
shelters, industrial and home shelters.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">THE FALLOUT SHELTER SYSTEM</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">As a result of the National Fallout Shelter Survey, in which existing large
buildings were examined and evaluated for fallout protection, space for
millions of people has been identified. Those community shelters having a
protection factor of at least 40 and space for at least 50 people are now
being marked with a familiar black and yellow shelter sign. Where necessary
storage space is available, they are being stocked with food, water (if
needed), sanitary and medical supplies, and radiation detection instruments.
The survey is a continuing effort. Through it, a current inventory is
maintained of shelters added by new construction.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">The fallout protection found in homes with basements represents important
additional shelter space.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Personal and other special considerations may make fallout protection at home
more practical and desirable than community shelters for certain individuals
or families. For example, in rural and suburban communities and even in many
cities, families may live a considerable distance from the nearest community
shelter. For these families, a home shelter wi9ll provide more accessible
fallout protection. Fallout protection at home is usually more accessible to
housewives and young children during the day and may be preferred by the whole
family when at home.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">HOW MUCH PROTECTION DOES YOUR BASEMENT PROVIDE AGAINST RADIOACTIVE
FALLOUT?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">In homes, basement areas provide the best shelter against fallout because
they are mostly belowground. This gives them a natural shield. This booklets
tells you the amount of protection your basement offers and what you can do to
increase this protection to provide your family's safety. Keep in mind that
fallout shelter provides only limited protection against blast.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Look at the back of this booklet again. Two numbers are printed there which
tell you the amount of fallout protection your basement offers. These numbers
were calculated for your home by electronic computer from the information you
gave in the recent Home Fallout Protection Survey questionnaire. The
analytical model used is based on the best scientific information available.
It was designed to give the maximum accuracy possible while requiring the
minimum information from you. A more complex method might produce more precise
results in some cases but would sacrifice simplicity, speed, and
economy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">The number in the box marked "center" (see back of your booklet) is the
Basement Protection Factor (PF) calculated for the center of your basement.
The other number is the PF calculation for the best corner of your basement.
If your cover shows an X in place of either PF number, it means the PF is
smaller than 10. Information on the box labeled "Added Weight," is on page 20
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<u><strong><span style="font-size: x-large;">WHICH IS THE BEST CORNER OF YOUR BASEMENT?</span></strong></u><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">The best corner of your basement is the one which has the highest outside
ground level--that is, the least amount of basement wall sticking up
aboveground. In this corner make a triangle by measuring ten feet from the
corner along each wall, and drawing a line between these points (see
illustration).</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">The best corner protection factor listed on the back of this booklet means
the average protection factor within the triangle is ablve this value. This 50
sq. ft. area provides adequate fallout shelter space for 5 persons; however,
if necessary, several more persons could crowd into the corner area.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">A smaller area could be used if equipment such as the furnace occupies part
of the corner. If additional shelter space is required or the best corner is
not usable, another corner having the next highest ground level to that of the
best corner could be used. If all the corners have equal outside ground
levels, the most convenient corner may be used, and of course all corners may
be used.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">The fallout protection afforded in the corner is better closer to the wall
and closer to the floor. Therefor, you should liek on the floor next to the
wall or sit on the floor with your back against the wall as much as possible.
You may stand to stretch, and for essential needs, you can leave the forner
shelter area for a few minutes.</span><br />
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<u><strong><span style="font-size: x-large;">WHAT ABOUT THE CENTER OF THE BASEMENT</span></strong></u><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">In nearly all basements, the highest protection factor is in the corner and
lowerst in the center. This means the whole basement can be thought of as a
fallout shelter with a protection factor in the center equal to the first PF
number on the back of your booklet and a higher protection factor in the best
corner equal to the second PF number.</span><br />
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<strong><u><span style="font-size: x-large;">STEPS YOU CAN TAKE TO INCREASE YOUR FALLOUT PROTECTION</span></u></strong><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">If the protection factor in the best corner of your basement as indicated on
the back cover is less than 40 and you wish to bring the PF up to the minimum
recommended for a public shelter, then you need additional shielding. You can
provide additional shielding for your basement by:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">1. Permanent shelters -- By making part of your basement into a shelter area
or by building a permanent shelter which might also serve other purposes.
Listed on the back label are the plans recommended for your home.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">2.Preplanned shelters -- By locating shielding materials so that you can
complete a shelter quickly in time of crisis.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">3. Improvised shelters -- by taking last-minute improvised actions if an
emergency actually occurs.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">recommended that you build from the detailed plans and lists of materials
which are available by mailing the post card enclosed with this booklet</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Fallout Shelter Plans A through F which follow are so simple that you may be
tempted to construct them from the drawings in this booklet -- and in many
cases a thoroughly experienced "do-it-yourselfer" could do this. However, it
requires very careful calculation of materials and fasteners to safely hold
the heavy materials to be placed overhead; therefore, it is strongly </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><strong><u>IMPROVISED SHELTERS</u></strong></span>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">If a community shelter is not available and you have not provided your own
fallout shelter, what would you do if you sud</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">denly heard the United States had been attacked with nuclear weapons?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">You can still protect yourself and your family if you know what to do and you
act quickly. Pick out a corner of your basement with the highest ground level
outside. That is the safest place in the basement. NOW MAKE IT SAFER.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">In belowground basements, it is most important to have shielding overhead.
Entered in the box labeled "Added Weight" on the back cover of this booklet is
a number which tells you approximately how much weight of material should be
placed over each square foot of the area over an improvised shelter, as
illustrated on the following pages, to obtain a PF of 20, the minimum
recommended.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">If the letter "Y" appears in the box labeled "Added Weight" this means that
adding overhead materials alone will not provide adequate protection ahainst
radiation unless heavy walls surrounding the shelter area are also added. If
you already have a PF of 40 or more in the best corner of your basement, a
zero, "0," will be shown in the box on the back cover labeled "Added Weight"
indicating that additional weight will not be required.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">2 inches of sand weighs approximately 35 pounds per sq. ft. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">4 inches of wood weighs approximately 10 pounds per sq. ft. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">4 inches of water weighs approximately 21 pounds per sq. ft. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">4-inch cinder blocks weigh approximately 22 pounds per sq. ft. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">4-inch bricks weigh approximately 32 pounds per sq. ft. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">4-inch solid concrete blocks weigh approximately 48 pounds per sq. ft. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">4 inches of library books weight approximately 15 pounds per sq. ft. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">If you have a sturdy table or workbench, place it in the corner. Quickly fill
drawers or boxes with the heaviest material which is readily available -- sand
or dirt, bricks -- or if you have nothing heavier, newspapers or books. Stack
these materials on the top of the workbench. If a "Y" appears in the "Added
Weight" box on the back cover of this booklet, then in order to obtain a PF of
40 in the shelter you must place an equivalent of 70 pounds per square foot on
top of the shelter as well' as adding heavy material on the sides of the
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">If a workbench is not available, you can improvise a somewhat larger shelter
area by using furniture, doors, dressers, or other materials. Remove doors
from their hinges and place them over supports in the corner of your basement
having the best protection. The supports for the table can be chests of
drawers or anything that can take a heavy load. Use two or three doors over
each support for this shelter to provide sufficient strength to carry the
heavy loads placed on them. Place bricks, concrete blocks, earth- or
sand-filled drawers, books, a collapsible swimming pool filled with water,
etc., over the doors to provide an overhead shield. Use anything with weight
that can be moved. The heavier the material, the more the protection. The
minimum weight of the material to be added for each square foot over the doors
is shown in the "Added Weight" box on the back cover. If a "Y" appears in the
"Added Weight" box, then in order to obtain a PF of 20 in the shelter, you
must place 70 pounds per square foot on top of the shelter as well as adding
heavy material to the sides of the shelter to serve as a vertical
shield.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">If the figure entered in the box marked "Added Weight" on the back cover
happens to be a number such as 30, this means that every square foot over the
shelter area should be covered with materials having a sufficient height so as
to weigh 30 pounds. Using the weights of typical shielding materials as given
on page 20, the required shielding material can be obtained by the
following:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Approximately 3½ inches of earth or sand, or </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Approximately 12 inches of wood, or </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Approximately 6 inches of water, or </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">4-inch (nominal thickness) layer of bricks, or </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Approximately 8 inches of library books. </span><br />
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layer of sand completely over the improvised shelter or in conjunction with
other materials as shown in the illustration on the opposite page.</span><br />
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box) this can be obtained by placing heavy materials along the sides of the
improvised shelter. Examples are: single course of bricks or concrete blocks,
washing machine filled with water, chest of drawers filled with earth,
deep-freeze, two rows of books, etc.</span><br />
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trained monitors using special instruments, you should stay in your shelter as
much as possible. For essential needs, you can leave your shelter for a few
minutes. Before leaving the shelter for longer periods of time, listen to your
radio station for information and instructions. A battery operated radio
should be available for this purpose.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">For quick reference, after you have finished reading this booklet, hang it up
in the corner of your basement having the best protection so that it will be
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<span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: x-large;">DETAILED PLANS ARE AVAILABLE FREE OF CHARGE</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Detailed plans of many of the shelters you have read about in this booklet
are available free of charge.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">These plans contain construction details, suggested construction sequences
and lists of materials needed. The plans supplement the material presented in
this booklet.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Before construction any of the permanent shielding devices described here,
you should check to see that the construction conforms to your local building
code.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">The plans may be obtained by sending the attached post card to the
Jeffersonville Census Operation Office, 1201 Easy 10th Street, Jeffersonville,
Indians 47130</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Be sure that you identify the plan or plans you want as they are designated
in this booklet:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">PLAN A -- CEILING MODIFICAITON TO BASEMENT -- See page 7 </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">PLAN B -- ALTERNATE CEILING MODIFICATION TO BASEMENT -- See page 9 </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">PLAN C -- CONCRETE BLOCK SHELTER -- See page 11 </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">PLAN D -- SNACK BAR SHELTER --See page 13 </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">PLAN E -- TILT-UP STORAGE UNIT -- See page 14 </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">PLAN F -- LEAN-TO SHELTER -- See page 15 </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">For further information on fallout protection and personal and family
survival, consult your local Civil Defense Director and send for the personal
and family survival </span><br />
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THE PROTECTION YOUR HOME COULD GIVE IN THE EVENT OF A NUCLEAR
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<span style="background-color: orange; color: black; font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><u><strong>THE UNITED STATES SURVEYED MILLIONS OF HOMES DURING THE NATIONAL
FALLOUT SHELTER PLAN AND THIS LETTER CAME WITH A RATING OR
PROTECTION FACTOR ON THE ENVELOPE AS EXPLAINED ABOVE AND SHOWN THE
AVERAGE AMERICAN NOT LOCATED IN URBAN AREAS COULD SURVIVE A
NUCLEAR ATTACK AND WOULD FARE FAR BETTER THAN THEIR COUNTERPART IN
A PUBLIC SHELTER,WHATS NOT EVER EXPLAINED WOULD BE THE INJURIES
AND SHOCK CASES,RADIATION SICKNESS AND EVEN THE SHELTER BEING NOT
STOCKED OR NOT HAVE ENOUGH RATIONS AS THE SANITARY SYSTEMS WOULD
START OVERLOADING AND THE TIGHT NOT PRIVATE PLACE FOR SHELTER
RESIDENTS (BEDDING WAS NEVER STOCKED IN SHELTERS) SO SLEEPING ON A
CONCRETE FLOOR WITH NO BLANKET THE SMELL OF UNWASHED BODIES AND
PROBABLY THE THIEVERY OF SURVIVAL ITEMS BY SOCIETYS SOCIOPATHS
THINKING ONLY OF THEIR SURVIVAL,REMEMBER WHAT HAPPENED AT THE
SUPERDOME DURING HURRICANE KATRINA AND THAT EXPLAINS WHY A HOME
SHELTER WOULD BE THE ONLY WAY TO KEEP YOUR FAMILY AND SELF SAFE
FROM THE THINGS THAT A SITUATION OF THIS MAGNITUDE WOULD CAUSE,
JUST THE FACT THAT THERE HAS NEVER BEEN ANY TYPE OF SITUATION TO
COMPARE AND PLAN MAKES A HOME SHELTER NOT ONLY A SAFER REFUGE BUT
A BETTER IDEA.</strong></u></span>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><strong><u><span style="background-color: #38761d; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">COLLIERS MAGAZINE ARTISTIC RENDERING OF NYC (NEW YORK COUNTY) MANHATTAN WITH A DETONATION OF A SOVIET ATOMIC WEAPON AROUND MIDTOWN VIA A LONG RANGE SOVIET<br />
New York City at risk, 1950--In "Hiroshima U.S.A." artist Chesley Bonestell imagined an atomic bomb attack on the city. Painted for the cover of Collier's, August 5, 1950 (reproduced courtesy of Bonest BOMBER GETTING THROUGH THE AIR DEFENSE NETWORK AROUND NYC</span></u></strong></td></tr>
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<strong><u><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">NY-15 Fort Slocum (david and harts islands) Davids Island Home to the Fire Control Point And Radar And Tracking Facilities Shared The Island With A USAF Base That Did Not Have Flight Operations Or Defense Capabilities And Hundreds of Years Of History While Its Brother Harts Island Was The Island Where Potters Field Was and Various Correctional Facilities ,The Missile Men Shared Space With Over 3/4 s of Million People,..Dead That is And if you were on The Island You Were Part of Or Were a</span></u></strong></div>
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<strong><u><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: large;">1) US Army NIKE Missileer 2) NYC Corrections Officer 3) Rikers Island Inmate 4)The Walking Dead</span></u></strong></div>
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<strong><u><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: large;">The US Army Left The Island to NYC Corrections in 1963 all other New York Area NIKE sites Lasted till At Least 1975, Weird....</span></u></strong></div>
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<strong><u><span style="background-color: #38761d; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">THE AMAZING NIKE FACILITY KNOWN AS NY-15 IN THE LONG ISLAND SOUND 1 MILE FROM MANHATTAN ISLAND STANDING ON THE ELEVATED PLATFORM OF THE J TRAIN AT MYRTLE AVENUE IF YOU LOOK NORTH SOME OF THE RADIO TRANSMISSIONS TOWERS ARE VISIBLE WAY ACROSS QUEENS AND KINGS (BROOKLYN) COUNTIES AND CAN BE SEEN FROM CITY ISLAND BEACH IN THE BRONX</span></u></strong></div>
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<strong><u><span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: #38761d;">SCHOOL FIELD TRIP TO NY-15 NIKE FACILITY OF NYC AREA SHOWN IS THE NIKE "AJAX" THE FIRST OF THE ANTI AIR MISSILES DEPLOYED AROUND LARGE CITIES THIS INCLUDED GROUND TO AIR ARTILERY UNITS AND WERE SETUP SOMETIMES INDEPENDENT OF A NIKE UNIT INSIDE CITY LIMITS, WHAT IF THIS TYPE OF AIR DEFENSE WAS CURRENT TECHNOLOGY HOW WOULD YOU FEEL IF IT WERE USED TO DOWN A HIJACKED 757 HEADED TOWARDS A CITY OR NUCEAR POWER PLANT? THE MEN WHO WERE RESPONSIBLE BACK THEN HAD TO BE SURE THE UNIDENTIFIED AIRCRAFT WAS AN ENEMY AIRCRAFT WHEN ONE STRAYED INTO THE RADAR AREA FOR THIS NIKE BATTERY, ITS A LOT OF RESPONSIBILITY AND DON'T FORGET THEY DID COME IN NUCLEAR VARIETYS AT OTHER NY SITES. </span></span></u></strong></div>
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<strong><u><span style="background-color: #38761d; color: white; font-family: "times"; font-size: large;">One of the first Nike missile sites constructed within the New York metropolitan area was a site known as Nike missile battery "NY-15." Site NY-15 was also one of the most unusual Nike installations, for its facilities were constructed on two separate islands located in the extreme western portion of Long Island Sound. </span></u></strong></div>
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<span style="background-color: #38761d; color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><u><strong>The fins and control surfaces of the missiles were attached within the building that stood here where also their internal guidance equipment was tested before they were moved to the adjacent fueling and warheading area. A portion of the curving concrete path over which the missiles were moved can be still be seen at the north end of the foundation. </strong></u></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #38761d; color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><u><strong>Davids Island was already under federal control. It was the site of Fort Slocum, a seacoast fort established during the mid-19th century to defend the approaches to New York City. During the latter half of the 20th century, Fort Slocum served as a headquarters for various military commands and was also the site of several armed forces schools. Due to the location of its headquarters and Control Area at this installation, Nike missile site NY-15 was also known as the Fort Slocum Nike missile battery.</strong></u></span></div>
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The most dangerous operations were performed within a compound here where sloping earthen walls (now largely obscured by vegetation) were constructed to deflect the force of an accidental explosion. The missiles received their liquid fuel/oxidizer mixture here and the warheads were inserted before the missiles were joined to their booster rockets. The crane was used to lift and move the missiles and other components. </div>
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Nike missile battery NY-15, the only missile site within to New York metro area to be located entirely on two offshore islands, was declared operational during 1955. It was initially designated as Battery "D" of the Army's 66th Anti-Aircraft Missile Battalion. Headquartered at historic Fort Totten in northern Queens, the 66th Battalion also controlled three additional Nike missile batteries defending the New York metropolitan area</div>
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Nike missile site NY-15's Launcher Area was situated within a narrow parcel of land within the northern half of Hart Island. The Launcher Area contained all of the facilities needed to assemble, test, store and launch the site's compliment of twenty supersonic Nike Ajax missiles.</div>
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THE TWO ISLANDS ARE VERY DIFFERENT AND DAVID ISLAND HAS THE EMPTY BUILDINGS AND CIVIL WAR ERA JAILS AND CHURCHES A VERY BEAUTIFU PLACE BUT OVER ON HARTS DO NOT GET CAUGHT NYC CORRECTIONS ARE NYCs BOLDEST or TOUGHEST AND TRESPASSING COULD BE CONSTRUED AS YOU WERE LEAVING SOMETHING FOR A INMATE TO GET WHILE WORKING AT POTTERS FIELD AND ESCAPE WITH OR BRING BACK INTO THE FACIITY, THEY DO NOT PLAY, NIGHTIME TRIPS SUCK SINCE ITS DARK AND NOT ENJOYABLE SO DON'T WASTE YOUR TIME , IF YOU CAMP OUT BE VERY DISCREET AND LEAVE BEFORE 3pn Courtesy of urban spelunking friends....<br />
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<strong><u><span style="background-color: #38761d; color: white; font-size: large;">THE UNITED STATES AIR FORCE HAD A BASE ON THE ISLAND THAT WAS FOR VARIOUS DUTIES WITH NO AIR OPERATIONS OR DEFENSE OPERATIONS</span></u></strong><br />
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<strong><u><span style="background-color: #38761d; color: white; font-size: large;"> A boat believed to have been used by the four teenage boys who vanished in the frigid waters off City Island a week ago has been found at nearby Hart Island, police said yesterday.</span></u></strong><br />
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Harbor cops spotted the capsized 7-foot fiberglass dinghy Friday morning when ice shifted, police said. The black-hulled craft with a beige interior was in shallow water about 30 feet from the Hart Island shoreline.<br />
The discovery was seen as grim confirmation of the boys' fate, but the parents of one teen refused to accept the boat as evidence their son is dead.<br />
No trace of the youths has been found.<br />
An exhaustive search effort covering 60 miles of Long Island Sound was launched Jan. 25 for four friends - Max Guarino, 17, of Manhattan; Henry Badillo, 17, of the Bronx; Charles (Carlo) Wertenbaker, 16, of City Island, and Andrew Melnikov, 16, of the upper East Side - who apparently had set out from City Island for Hart Island, a half-mile away, in a rowboat the previous night.<br />
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The last contact from them was a 12-second call to 911 in which Henry said, "Hello . . . we're on the Long Island Sound in a boat off the coast of City I. . . . We're gonna die."<br />
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The entire base was enclosed behind steel cyclone type fences topped barbed wire and access was strictly controlled by armed sentries. Large warning signs, posted at regular intervals, helped to discourage curious boaters from attempting to land and trespass.<br />
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The base also contained a Generator Building featuring diesel generators that supplied electrical power to the missile site whenever an alert was called. Internal power was used during practice alerts in order to simulate actual wartime conditions during which the region's electrical power grid might have become unstable due to bomb damage, the electromagnetic effects of nuclear detonations or deliberate sabotage. <br />
The Hart Island missile site and all of its "sister" sites within the New York metropolitan area were initially equipped with the first-generation Nike missile system known as Nike Ajax.Beginning in 1958, however, select Nike installations within the region were upgraded to fire a new, second-generation Nike missile known as the Nike Hercules. <br />
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The Nike Hercules missile represented a vast improvement over the Nike Ajax. It offered a higher maximum speed, improved altitude capabilities, and roughly three times the range of its predecessor. More significantly, the Nike Hercules could be armed with a powerful, defensive nuclear warhead enabling a single Hercules missile to destroy a formation of several attacking aircraft. <br />
The greatly enhanced capabilities of the Nike Hercules system meant that fewer missile sites were required to defend the New York metropolitan area. Only 10 of the original 19 Nike missile sites in the region were upgraded to use the Army's new missile system. Some of the sites equipped with the new Hercules missiles remained in operation through 1974. By contrast, all of the unmodified Nike Ajax equipped sites in the region were inactivated by 1963. Probably due to its close proximity to the center of the New York Defense Area, Nike site NY-15 did not receive the new Nike Hercules missile system. It continued to operate its Nike Ajax missiles until it was finally inactivated during 1961. <br />
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Battery "D" of the Army's 1st Battalion, 55th Artillery - the second and final unit to command this site - held its final inactivation ceremonies on June 30, 1961. During the ceremonies, the battery commander presented New York City Department of Correction Commissioner Anna M. Kross with a wooden propeller from a Radio Controlled Aerial Target or "RCAT." Also attending the inactivation ceremonies on Hart Island that day were the Deputy Correction Commissioner and the Hart Island Warden.<br />
Following the deactivation of the Army's Nike facility, the New York City Department of Correction acquired the former Hart Island missile installation. On July 23, 1962, the DOC opened a new facility for the "housing of family court cases and traffic offenders". Commissioner Anna M. Kross presided over the opening. DOC PUTS BASE BUILDINGS TO USE<br />
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The caption for the above photo in DOC's 1962 annual report reads: "At the opening of the new housing quarters for minor offenders on Hart island, Director of Operations Anthony Principe, Commissioner Anna M. Kross and Warden Edward Dros review the potential of the new annex. Note the army-barracks huts in the rear. Inmate labor performs landscaping and maintenance chores." [From the NYCHS-maintained archives at the NYC DOC Academy.] <br />
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The Army's prefabricated, steel Utica-style barracks, left behind after the site was closed, provided accommodations for the island's new temporary residents. The Army's diesel-powered electrical generation facility remained in use and was operated for the DOC by inmates residing on the island.<br />
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Numerous relics of the Army's Hart Island missile launching facility remain visible today. Close to the island's northern end, the exterior surfaces of the two underground missile magazines are easily discerned. The adjacent fueling and warheading area remains intact, although its protective earthen berms are now heavily overgrown with vegetation. A rusted crane designed to lift and move missiles now stands idle near the center of this facility.<br />
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"On July 23, 1962, the abandoned US Army Nike Missile Base located at this institution was opened as a facility for the housing of Family Court cases and traffic offenders . . . Here 105 first offender traffic and family commitments are satisfactorily and healthfully housed in the metal Utica-type barracks buildings abanonded by the army . . . "Inmates housed therein do all sanitation and other minor maintenance requirements, along with the establishment of inmate fire watchers on a 24-hour basis. Inmates are also assigned to the disel-powered generator plant where they have successfully mantained efficient and continual operation of all power plant facilitAcademy.]</div>
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Further south, foundation remnants of the demolished Missile Assembly and Test Building can be distinguished. Several concrete slab foundations, created to support the Army's prefabricated barracks, are located nearby. Although the barracks were eventually removed by the Department of Corrections, the Army's combined kitchen and mess hall remains intact. It currently serves inmates from the Riker's Island correctional facility who have volunteered to perform burial or landscaping activities on Hart Island. On the island's western shore, the pier complex constructed by the Army to move men, missiles and supplies to and from the Nike installation lies abandoned and unused. </div>
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Today, the Cold War is but a memory. New Yorkers no longer live in profound fear of a nuclear Armageddon. The tense and often frightening circumstances of that era which brought the Army and its Nike missiles to Hart Island are long past. A monument erected by inmates on the island during 1948 stands close to the abandoned missile site. Inscribed on its northern facade is a single word: PEACE. How times have changd</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><strong><u><span style="color: white; font-size: large;">THE PEACE MONUMENT WAS ERECTED BEFORE THE NIKE SITE 1948 BY PRISONERS WHY? WAS IT TO APPEASE RESTLESS SPIRITS OF THE DEAD THAT ARE BURIED HERE ON HARTS ISLAND THE OFFICIAL AMOUNT IS IN THE HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS I WOULD SAY IT IS PROBABLY CLOSER TO OVER A MILLION SINCE THE RECORDS KEPT ON POTTERS FIELD MOST LIKELY WERE NOT SCRUTINIZED AND THEY HAVE BEEN DOING THIS HERE HUNDREDS OF YEARS, I TEACH A CLASS ON RIKERS ONCE A MONTH AND HAVE BEEN TRYING TO GET PERMISSION TO GO OUT TO HARTS ISLAND FOR A VISIT AND IT IS HARD , MR BENDER IS A LUCKY GUY TO HAVE BEEN ABLE TO VISIT THIS SITE AND I USE SOME OF HIS HISTORY FROM A CORRECTIONS WEBSITE, THIS TWO ISLAND BASE IS A UNIQUE DEFENSE SYSTEM AND I AM SUPRISED IT WAS NOT USED AT A BETTER CAPACITY BY UPGRADING IT TO HERCULES TYPE MISSILES ,EVEN WITH THE CLOSE PROXIMITY TO NYC THE ISLANDS COULD OF BEEN USED ALOT BETTER THAN A PLACE FOR CIVIL WAR POWS AND THE CONSTANT JAIL THEMED USES AND AN ISLAND OF BURYING THE POOR.</span></u></strong><br />
<strong><u><span style="color: white; font-size: large;">THE ISLAND WAS NEVER UPGRADED TO A NUCLEAR WARHEAD CARRYING HERCULES TYPE MISSILE BUT I CAME ACROSS THIS STORY AThttp://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread321772/pg</span></u></strong><strong><u><span style="color: white; font-size: large;"></span></u></strong><br />
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This information comes to me from a retired USA Air Force officer, who was dating my elderly and widowed aunt last year. Based upon my own investigation, the story seems plausible. <br />
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Hart Island is a small and somewhat desolate island off the coast of the Bronx Borough of New York City, in Long Island Sound. The island is off limits to the public. You will be arrested if you make any attempt to approach the island. <br />
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In the 1950s and 1960s, this island was home to a highly secret base, containing at least 24 Nike Ajax missiles. This comprised part of the USA anti-ballistic missile system, to protect New York City, intended as a last-line of defense against a nuclear air attack by the USSR or other foreign nuclear power. <br />
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In the 1960’s, there was an attempt to replace the missile with a later generation weapon system known as the Nike Hercules missile. Unlike the Nike Ajax, this new system used nuclear tipped warheads so as to more reliably kill incoming bombers and missiles. <br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"><b>A CLASSIC CIVIL DEFENSE RECORD</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><b style="background-color: orange;">Scholars will debate President Kennedy's impact on American history for ever, but this much is certain: The young Commander-in-Chief's repeated Cold War saber rattling spawned a paranoid Civil Defense fad the likes of which had not been seen before (or since). Thankfully, some remnants of this apocalyptic heyday have survived into the 21st century for our contemporary enjoyment. One such gem is a Civil Defense "scare" album called THE COMPLACENT AMERICANS that simply must be heard to be believed. This LP - with its bright orange mushroom cloud cover and its hyperbolic advisories to sensitive listeners - could well have been produced by that genius of exploitation William Castle. But actually it was recorded under the stately auspices of the Office of Civil Defense, a sub-branch of the U.S. government (later replaced by FEMA). Unlike <a href="http://conelrad.com/media/atomicmusic/sh_boom.php?platter=3">IF THE BOMB FALLS</a> (a more somber wax cousin), COMPLACENT seeks to grab the listener by the collar and shake him or her out of an idyllic peacetime slumber.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><b style="background-color: orange;">Presented as a kind of Cold War "It's a Wonderful Life," THE COMPLACENT AMERICANS (as personified vocally by Robert Connelly), begins side one with its businessman narrator witnessing an H-Bomb attack on the fictional (and unfortunately named) "Target City." His voice, augmented by dreamy and futuristic sound effects, follows as the sirens and the explosion fade away:</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><b style="background-color: orange;">"The H-Bomb! The H-Bomb! The H-Bomb! Flash of brightness. A tremendous roar... And I, the complacent American, thinking that no one would ever dare attack an American city. And I told my friends that nuclear war would never happen... but it did. I always thought I was a good American - patriotic and civic minded. But I was wrong. I failed myself and my country."</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><b style="background-color: orange;">The next stop for our post-nuclear George Bailey is an omniscient peek into the fallout shelters: "I can see people alive in the fallout shelters. Had I learned the rules as set forth by the Office of Civil Defense, I would be alive and in that shelter now. How simple it looked - those who knew what to do and where to go are still amongst the living. I had my opportunity, but I was the Complacent American."</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><b style="background-color: orange;">"The streets suddenly became packed with cars, trucks and buses. I remember seeing all those cars just piling up against each other - just wrecking each other! Panic. The hysterical look in people's eyes! Everybody pushing and shoving each other... I had glanced about me and then I saw a great wail of fright overcoming Target City. How those people were bursting from every building. Sidewalks began to blacken with thousands of men and women gripped in sheer terror and panic! Then there was a man carrying a portable radio and I said, 'Hey you, what's that voice saying on the radio?' and then the voice saying 'THIS IS A CONELRAD RED ALERT. THIS IS NOT A TEST. THIS IS AN ALERT. TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY EVERYONE. I REPEAT THIS IS NOT A TEST, THIS IS CONELRAD. TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY. WE ARE UNDER ATTACK'"</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><b style="background-color: orange;">"I'm afraid. Because THIS IS real. The voice said it wasn't a test. Take cover immediately? What kind of cover? To where? Where will I go?! I wished then that I had attended the Civil Defense meeting... What shall I do? What shall I do? Shall I pray? My God I guess itís too late for even prayers now."</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><b style="background-color: orange;">Yes, too late for him, but, gratefully, not too late for us!</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><b style="background-color: orange;">Side Two opens ("Note Should not be played for ten minutes following Side One") with the Voice of the Complacent American now reborn as a more mundane but decidedly less complacent Civil Defense spokesman:</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><b style="background-color: orange;">"The devastation of Target City was mythical however it could happen. The reasons are many that it hasn't. There are many complacent Americans and as a result of their complacency they fail both themselves and our country..."</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><b style="background-color: orange;">After this scolding, a tour of this country's "mammoth military installations" ensues and we are treated to some aural visits to NORAD and SAC. Then, Mr. Jack F. Fuller, Civil Defense Coordinator for the city of Los Angeles, state of California, signs on to give us the broadstroke "basics" of survival:</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><b style="background-color: orange;">"First there are two types of sirens..."</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><b style="background-color: orange;">"Next we learn about CONELRAD and the emergency frequencies on your radio dial..."</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><b style="background-color: orange;">"Now everyone, whether he lives in Target City (and we thought it was mythical) or any other city should act instantly when an attack is threatened..."</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><b style="background-color: orange;">"Follow all these rules and you WILL survive!"</b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><b><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Mr. Jack F. Fuller appears through the courtesy of the Office of Civil Defense, City of Los Angeles, State of California</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><b><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">With Robert Connelly as the Complacent American</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><b><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: red;">SIDE ONE</span><span style="color: #333333;">: "Shocker Side"</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="color: #333333;">Hear the startling and emotional presentation of an American City being devestated by nuclear attack. Although the story is mythical, it could happen.</span></span></b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><b><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: red;">SIDE TWO</span><span style="color: #333333;">: "Survival"</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="color: #333333;">Note: (Should not be played for ten minutes following Side One) Visit many of our defense systems, such as NORAD-SAGE-SAC-BMEWS-WHITE-ALICE, etc. Then Jack Fuller covers all important survival instructions in the event of an enemy nuclear attack.</span></span></b></span><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>A VERY ARTSY CLIP OF A SIMULATED A BOMB ATTACK ON NYC WITH WARNING BY A MILITARY</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>RADAR OPERATOR THAT TRACKS THE SOVIET JET CARRYING A NUKE FOR NYC,SHOWS CIVIL DEFENSE RESPONDING TO ASSIGNED POSTS AS A HAUNTING AIR RAID SIREN WAKES MANHATTAN,ANOTHER SCENARIO INVOLVING NYC,AND OUT OF ALL THE MOVIES THAT SHOW A SIMULATED ATOMIC ATTACK OR A PICTURE OR WRITTEN WORD NYC IS THE TARGET CITY IN AT LEAST 75% MAYBE MORE......</b></span></div><br />
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<br />FALLOUT_SHELTER_NYChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12785631161599947787noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1773043123220039947.post-86416387490510271702020-01-03T18:16:00.000-05:002020-01-03T18:16:20.286-05:00JANUARY, 2 2020 PROPAGANDA #36 " THE CALL GOES OUT TO CITIZENS OF GOTHAM" <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="background-color: yellow;"><span style="color: blue;"><br style="text-align: start;" /><span style="text-align: start;">In 1955, New York State made the failure to take cover during an Operation Alert exercise punishable with a fine of up to $500 and a year in jail. A small group of pacifists that included Catholic Worker Dorothy Day reacted to this law by staging a protest in Manhattan's City Hall Park. When the air raid sirens sounded, on June 15, 1955, the 27 protesters sat on park benches, surrounded by reporters. They explained that they were protesting the government's pretense that citizens could be protected in the event of a full-scale nuclear attack. The protesters were arrested and given suspended sentences. </span><br style="text-align: start;" /><br style="text-align: start;" /><span style="text-align: start;">The pacifists held similar protests every year. But it wasn't until a group of young mothers organized a much larger-scale demonstration in 1960 that the rest of New York took notice. The women managed to draw hundreds of protesters, including celebrities like Norman Mailer, to City Hall Park on May 3, the day of the 1960 Operation Alert. The organizers appealed to the political center; encouraged protesters to dress in their best clothes and to bring their children; and claimed to represent just one belief: "Peace is the only defense against nuclear war." </span><br style="text-align: start;" /><br style="text-align: start;" /><span style="text-align: start;">There was one more Operation Alert in 1961. The young mothers managed to bring together two-and-a-half-thousand protesters. That year civil defense protests also took place in other states, and hundreds of college students staged demonstrations on several East Coast campuses. In 1962 Operation Alert was permanently canceled. </span></span></span></b></span><br />
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="text-align: start;">ABOVE IS ONE OF THE GOVERNMENT IN TRANSIT DEPARTMENTS SET UP IN A KOREAN WAR SURPLUS MAYBE EVEN WORLD WAR TWO TENT, THE US GOVERNMENT AT THE TIME WAS VERY BUSY BUILDING ELABORATE BUNKERS AROUND THE UNITED STATES LIKE THE GREENBRIAR, RAVEN ROCK, MOUNT WEATHER , AND OTHER COVERT PLACES TO HOST THE CONGRESS OR SENATE OR PRESIDENT OR VICE PRESIDENT EACH WITH A HAND SELECTED ADMINISTRATION THOSE PICKED WERE ISSUED CARDS THAT STATED THE BEARER WAS TO BE ALLOWED UNRESTRICTED MOVEMENT AND HELP IF REQUESTED DUE TO ESSENTIAL GOVERNMENT DUTIES. THESE MEN AND WOMEN WOULD HAVE TO LEAVE BEHIND FAMILIES TO BE INCINERATED BY THE COMING ATTACK, I DON'T THINK THEY REALLY EVER KNEW WHO WOULD BE ABLE TO DO THIS AND WOULD STAY BEHIND.DURING THE OPERATION ALERT YEARS A MEDIA SESSION WOULD BE SET UP SHOWING THE PRESIDENT LEAVING VIA HELICOPTER TO GO TO HIS HIDDEN SHELTER AND OTHER MEDIA SHOWED DOZENS OF HELICOPTERS FERRYING ESSENTIAL MILITARY PERSONNEL FROM THE PENTAGON LAWN AS OTHER LESS FORTUNATE POLITICIANS EVEN THE VICE PRESIDENT SHELTERING IN BUNKERS UNDER THE WHITE HOUSE OR ON LOCAL MILITARY BASES. </span></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: blue;"><b>(BELOW) THOSE FORCED FROM THE STREETS OR WERE IN PLACES WORKING OR SHOPPING MAKE THEIR WAY INTO THE BASEMENT SHELTER OF WHAT LOOKS LIKE A LARGE BUILDING'S BASEMENT SHELTER, AND THAT IS ALL THEY WERE ,NOT STOCKED OR ASSESSED A PROTECTIVE FACTOR AGAINST RADIATION. THESE SHELTERS WERE NOT SET UP FOR LONG TERM OR EVEN SHORT TERM STAYS UNLESS A BUILDING OR STORE OWNER STOCKED IT WITH SUPPLIES ON THEIR OWN DOLLAR, THE NATIONAL FALLOUT SHELTER PROGRAM STARTED IN 1961 AND MARKED SHELTER LOCATIONS WITH THE ALL FAMILIAR BLACK AND ORANGE/YELLOW SIGNS WITH THREE DOWNWARD TRIANGLES , THESE LOCATIONS WERE ASSESSED A PF AGAINST RADIATION AND HAD WATER AND VARIOUS RATIONS TO OFFER SHELTER INHABITANTS POSSIBLY A WEEKS WORTH OF SUPPLIES WITH SOME SHELTERS STOCKED WITH RADIOLOGICAL MEASURING GEAR.(*note this photo appears in another post about los angeles civil defense drills and was mistakenly identified as a california picture)</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: yellow; color: blue;"><b>ABOVE NEW YORKERS AWAIT THE ALL CLEAR IN ONE OF NEW YORKS MANY SUBWAY STATIONS BY VOLUNTEER CIVIL DEFENSE WORKERS, NYC AND NEW YORK STATE REALLY GOT BEHIND THE WHOLE CIVIL DEFENSE PROGRAM MAYOR LaGUARDIA AND WAGNER AND NYS GOV. ROCKEFELLER WERE VERY PRO CIVIL DEFENSE AND ADVOCATED AND ALLOCATED FUNDING FOR MANY CIVIL DEFENSE PROGRAMS ,EQUIPMENT, EDUCATION, AND SET UP A WORKING VOLUNTEER CIVIL DEFENSE ORGANIZATION,</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><span style="background-color: red; font-size: large;">ABOVE A PEDESTRIAN RUNS FOR IT AS THE AIR RAID SIREN IS BLARING SIGNALING HE NEEDS TO TAKE SHELTER IMMEDIATELY! CARS ARE HAPHAZARDLY PULLED OVER AND THEIR OCCUPANTS ARE ALREADY IN PUBLIC SHELTERS TAKING COVER, ALL UNDER THE WATCHFUL EYES OF NYPD.</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><span style="background-color: red;">THE NEWSREELS BELOW ARE OF VARIOUS OPERATION ALERT DRILLS NATIONAL ATOMIC ATTACK MANDATORY DRILLS THAT OCCURED IN THE MID 1950s MORE OF THESE LOST FILMS OF A VERY DIFFERENT NYC ARE BEING RESTORED AND RELEASED ALTHOUGH THESE DRILLS WERE WIDELY THOUGHT OF AS A PAIN IN THE ASS IT IS EERIE TO SEE TIMES SQUARE EMPTY OF PEOPLE AND TRAFFIC OR TO SEE NEW YORKERS WAITING IN SUBWAY ENTRANCES FOR THE ALL CLEAR. THE BLOG HAS FILM OF A ATTACK DRILL IN NYC WITH AIR RAID SIRENS HOWLING THROUGH THE CANYONS OF NYC ONLY A FEW POSTS BACK SO CHECK IT OUT!</span></b></span>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: red; font-size: large;"><b>THE MOCK NATIONAL ATTACK THAT OCCURED IN 1956 WITH MORE NYC FOOTAGE THAN OTHER FEATURED NEWSCLIPS, SHOWS UPTOWN (42nd street? )SUBWAY STOP ,NEW YORKERS BEING RUSHED INTO SHELTERS BY NYPD .AND AT THE END OF THE NEWSREEL NO OTHER CITY WAS GIVEN A "MOCK" DEATH TOLL EXCEPT NYC ! CHECK IT OUT FOR THE MOCK AMOUNT OF VAPORIZED NYC RESIDENTS, THESE DRILLS WERE QUITE COMMON IN THE 1950s AND EVEN THEN NYC HAD ITS SHARE OF INDIVIDUAL THINKERS WHO PROTESTED THESE EXERCISES, ALSO NYC WAS AND STILL IS THE CITY USED FOR RUSSIANS TO ATTACK AND BOMB IN THESE DRILLS AND IS USED IN FILMS, AND OTHER CIVIL DEFENSE PROPAGANDA ALSO HOLLYWOOD FILMS, BUT IT WOULD TAKE MORE THAN A NUCLEAR ATTACK TO SLOW DOWN THE AVERAGE NEW YORKER!</b></span></span></div>
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<br />FALLOUT_SHELTER_NYChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12785631161599947787noreply@blogger.com0101, 1, Norad Rd, Colorado Springs, CO 80906, USA38.7444906 -104.846062537.857950301016366 -105.9446953125 39.631030898983632 -103.7474296875tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1773043123220039947.post-28149227005647571972019-12-20T20:40:00.000-05:002019-12-20T16:10:25.052-05:001978 DEFENSE CIVIL PREPAREDNESS AGENCY ONE OF THE LAST NUCLEAR ATTACK PROPAGANDA FILMS "PROTECTION IN THE NUCLEAR AGE" <div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: blue;"><b>Despite this film being a us government production and done in cartoon as to prolong its shelf life so its not easy to date it is in fact one of the scariest information films i have seen. This would be played across the United States during International crisis or if a Nuclear Attack was imminent the basic information accompanied by the sound effects and the matter of fact way its presented is scary. This is the best our Government could come up with as the cold war was entering a dangerous time in our history. The Reagan years when more chances of Nuclear War happened than under any other president and Reagan provoked Russia with his SDI program and Bombers and by calling the Soviets the evil empire along with his radio gaffe among lots of things. this DCPA film should be watched as it closed the era of Civil Defense since most americans abandoned community shelter plans and Civil Defense groups during this period as FEMA stepped in and took the reins got rid of the familiar "CD" logo and name and concentrated on natural disaster or Human error even going as far as removing the course offered by their EMI program "Nuclear Attack" . We all got to see FEMA and their new upgraded form of Civil Defense during Hurricane Katrina thats is scary had they left Civil Defense in place New Orleans might have been spared the hell they went through. Imagine a Nuclear Attack occurs in this day and age after FEMAs great response to a Hurricane? God Help Us All... Enjoy the last of the Civil Defense era propaganda films and be thankful we haven't been attacked. </b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow;">The script for <em>Protection in the Nuclear Age</em> is both tragic and comic. Above all, the picture portrayed of nuclear war is catastrophically misleading to the American public, because it offers a best case scenario as the only case. The film is a prime example of overly optimistic estimates of survivability in a nuclear war.</span></div>
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One might assume that the <i>last</i> major movie produced for the U.S. government on the topic of surviving a nuclear war would be more realistic than one made in 1951 – an era before intercontinental ballistic missiles. Surprisingly, this is not the case. CONELRAD recently acquired a copy of <i>Protection in the Nuclear Age</i>, a 16mm motion picture produced in 1978 by Trio Productions, Inc. for the Defense Civil Preparedness Agency (the DCPA was one of the many successor organizations to the FCDA). It is, if anything, even more misleading than the first generation of official survival movies.<span style="color: yellow;"></span></div>
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Like <i>Survival Under an Atomic Attack</i> before it,<i>Protection in the Nuclear Age</i> began life as a government pamphlet. The 68-page booklet, published by the Government Printing Office in 1977, takes the reader on a heavily illustrated journey to a place called hope. Some of the helpful information imparted includes the following:</div>
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A twenty-five megaton nuclear blast is substantially worse than a one megaton explosion…</div>
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A cabin cruiser is a perfectly acceptable fallout shelter…</div>
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Don’t bring guns, booze or drugs to your civil defense relocation area…</div>
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The 23-minute movie adaptation of <i>Protection in the Nuclear Age</i> is an understated affair. Its narrator dispenses the “facts” of attack and survival in a subdued monotone that is complimented by a very minimalist music score. By contrast, <i>Survival Under an Atomic Attack</i>begins with the booming voice of Edward R. Murrow and music from what sounds like a World War II movie.</div>
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Certain segments of the animated<i> Protection in the Nuclear Age</i> are acted out by stick figures. In the early 1980s, an employee of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA is the agency that replaced DCPA in 1979) explained to author Edward Zuckerman that the decision to forgo live action was made, in part, to prolong the shelf-life of the film. Zuckerman quotes the spokesperson in his essential 1984 book, <i><a href="http://www.conelrad.com/books/flyleaf.php?id=4_0_1_0_M" style="color: #aa77aa; text-decoration: none;">The Day After World War III</a></i>, as saying simply: “Stick figures don’t get obsolete as fashion changes.”</div>
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<i>Protection in the Nuclear Age</i> begins with a view of the planet earth from space. The narrator intones:</div>
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<span style="color: yellow;">“We live in a world of tension and conflict. And peace, even where it does exist, does so without guarantees for tomorrow. We must therefore face the hard reality that someday a nuclear attack against the United States might occur. And—equally important—we must also realize that horrifying as that prospect may seem, destructive as such an attack might be, we <i>can</i> survive. It would not mean the end of the world, the end of our nation. And you can greatly improve your chances of survival if you’ll remember these facts—about Protection in the Nuclear Age.”</span></div>
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Oddly enough, this introduction echoes the words scripted for Mr. Murrow more than a quarter century earlier for <em>Survival Under an Atomic Attack</em>:</div>
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<span style="color: yellow;">“Let us face without panic, the reality of our time: The fact that atom bombs may someday be dropped on our cities. And let us prepare for survival by understanding the weapon that threatens us.” </span></div>
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<em>Protection</em> addresses many of the same points as its source material does, but for some reason, does not include a scene with stick figures seeking refuge from the A-bomb on a boat. It does, however, show plenty of them rushing into a public shelter marked with the familiar black and yellow sign. Left unsaid is that, while many of these shelters remain marked, they were last stocked in the 1960s.</div>
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The biggest howler in the film comes during a recitation of a government assessment of the worst case scenario of a nuclear war:</div>
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<span style="color: yellow;">“Defense Department studies show that even under the heaviest possible attack, less than five percent of our entire land mass would be affected by blast and heat from nuclear weapons. Of course, that five percent contains a large percentage of our population. But, even in these high risk areas, if there’s sufficient time to permit evacuation, many millions of lives could be saved. The other ninety-five percent of our land would escape untouched. Except possibly by radioactive fallout.”</span></div>
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The movie ends as it began with words of encouragement delivered as the earth is seen from space:</div>
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<span style="color: yellow;">“The greatest danger is hopelessness, the fear that nuclear attack would mean the end of our world. So why not just give up, lie down and die? That idea could bring senseless and useless death to many, for protection is possible. And your own chances of survival will be much greater if you remember these facts about Protection in the Nuclear Age.”</span></div>
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In a strange subtextual reminder that the government is looking after the viewer like some sort of guardian angel, the animated globe morphs into the DCPA seal as the narration comes to an end.</div>
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The thing that makes <i>Protection in the Nuclear Age</i> somewhat unsettling is that, according to Zuckerman, it was the “last movie” many Americans might have seen if the Cold War had not ended peacefully. During the course of his research for <i>The Day After World War III</i>, the author learned that copies of the film<i> </i>had been distributed to civil defense field offices and that some of these prints had, in turn, been given to local television stations. FEMA had also distributed fifteen informational articles to local civil defense officials to provide to local newspapers in the event of an escalating international crisis. In his book, Zuckerman captures the government’s intended strategy:</div>
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<span style="color: yellow;">“The newspaper articles would be supplemented by the twenty-five-minute television film [<i>Protection in the Nuclear Age</i>]…” FEMA has explained. “The cost of such materials is very low, and we estimate that the emergency newspaper articles and television films could add survivors amounting to perhaps eight to twelve percent of the U.S. population.”</span></div>
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Thankfully, there never came a time when<i>Protection in the Nuclear Age</i> needed to be broadcast. It gathered dust on the shelves of television tape libraries. The only evidence that CONELRAD could find of the movie ever being publicly screened is from an item in the October 4, 1979 edition of the Iowa <i>Democrat</i> newspaper. The article mentions that it was to be shown at an open meeting of the Emmelsburg Junior Civil Defense group, The Pacers.</div>
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Now, while we wait to see what the A/V specialists at the Department of Homeland Security come up with, we can sit back and watch <em>Protection in the Nuclear Age</em> . </div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: large;"><b style="background-color: blue;"><u>Flight was a television show from 1958, and this episode is entitled THE DERELICT. It was directed by Jean Yarbrough, written by Arthur Brown, Jr. and features a cast that includes Robert Christopher, Patrick Waltz, Christopher Dark, Ray Montgomery, Ed Perry, William Cassidy, Steve Ihnat. Flight ran from 1958-59 and was hosted by George C. Kenney. In this particular episode a B-47 bomber catches fire in mid-air, and its pilot decides that the 3 men onboard should eject from the crippled B-47. The pilot ejects and the Co Pilots ejection seat fails so he and the observer are left to bail out through a escape hatch but the other crewman who happens to be a pilot who was just catching a ride in the Radar/Navigator position and acting as an observer.tries to bail out his parachute catches on the escape hatch prematurely opening, leaving him no choice but to unbuckle it and stay on board, all alone and with his radio only recieving not transmitting due to the electrical fire,The airmen learns a group of F-89s from a Alaskan ADC base are scrambled to shoot down the crewless bomber. the airmen has to somehow let the incoming jets sent to shoot down the pilotless aircraft he is alive on board before it crashes in mother Russia with its top secret equipment. Badly burned and suffering from the high altitude he must somehow make his way into the cockpit and get control before he is shot down into the Bering Sea just at the last moment the lead F-89 sees the B-47 acting erratic and wagging its wings and the pilot decides to take a closer look and sees our lone airmen in the Co-Pilots seat flying the crippled B-47.A happy ending ensues as our doomed airmen takes control of the B-47 and flies the crippled bomber to the Alaskan AFB with the alert interceptors leading the way home.**There is a goof the F-89 scorpion is a two seat fighter but when the Blue flight leader is shown on closeup he is seen in the cockpit of a F-102/106 not the F-89</u></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: large;"><b style="background-color: blue;"><u>This is a great movie and shows the B-47 and also F-89 Scorpion fighter(s) that are scrambled to shoot the derelict B-47 before it can crash in enemy (soviet) territory with its classified equipment on board, Great film im not sure if flight is a series on true stories or just fiction not much info was available. just great cold war period television that has some great footage from those Cold War days at its best so sit back and ignore the commercials and give it a go.</u></b></span><br />
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<b><span style="background-color: #38761d; font-size: large;">Operation Chrome Dome was a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Air_Force" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; text-decoration: none;" title="United States Air Force">United States Air Force</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_War" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; text-decoration: none;" title="Cold War">Cold-War</a> era mission from 1960 to 1968 in which <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B-52_Stratofortress" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; text-decoration: none;" title="B-52 Stratofortress">B-52 Stratofortress</a> strategic bomber aircraft armed with thermonuclear weapons remained on continuous airborne alert, flying routes to points on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Union" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; text-decoration: none;" title="Soviet Union">Soviet Union</a> border.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-1" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Chrome_Dome#cite_note-1" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; text-decoration: none;">[1]</a></sup></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="background-color: #38761d;"><span style="background-color: #38761d; font-size: large;">During the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_War" style="background-image: none; text-decoration: none;" title="Cold War">Cold War</a>, General <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_S._Power" style="background-image: none; text-decoration: none;" title="Thomas S. Power">Thomas S. Power</a>,</span><span style="background-color: #38761d; font-size: large;"> </span><span style="background-color: #38761d; font-size: large;">a/k/a "Big Dink," initiated a program whereby B-52s performed airborne alert duty under code names such as <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Head_Start" style="background-image: none; text-decoration: none;" title="Operation Head Start">Head Start</a></i>, <i>Chrome Dome</i>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1968_Thule_Air_Base_B-52_crash#Thule_Monitor_Mission" style="background-image: none; text-decoration: none;" title="1968 Thule Air Base B-52 crash"><i>Hard Head</i></a>, <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Round_Robin" style="background-image: none; text-decoration: none;" title="Operation Round Robin">Round Robin</a></i>,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-2" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Chrome_Dome#cite_note-2" style="background-image: none; text-decoration: none;">[2]</a></sup> and <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Giant_Lance" style="background-image: none; text-decoration: none;" title="Operation Giant Lance">Operation Giant Lance</a></i>. Bombers loitered near points outside the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Union" style="background-image: none; text-decoration: none;" title="Soviet Union">Soviet Union</a> to provide rapid first strike or retaliation capability in case of nuclear war.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-NationalMuseum_3-0" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Chrome_Dome#cite_note-NationalMuseum-3" style="background-image: none; text-decoration: none;">[3]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-4" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Chrome_Dome#cite_note-4" style="background-image: none; text-decoration: none;">[4]</a></sup></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="background-color: #6aa84f; font-size: large;">The missions in 1964 involved a <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B-52_Stratofortress#B-52D" style="background-image: none; text-decoration: none;" title="B-52 Stratofortress">B-52D</a> that left <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheppard_Air_Force_Base" style="background-image: none; text-decoration: none;" title="Sheppard Air Force Base">Sheppard Air Force Base</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas" style="background-image: none; text-decoration: none;" title="Texas">Texas</a> and flew across the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States" style="background-image: none; text-decoration: none;" title="United States">United States</a> to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_England" style="background-image: none; text-decoration: none;" title="New England">New England</a> and headed out to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_Ocean" style="background-image: none; text-decoration: none;" title="Atlantic Ocean">Atlantic Ocean</a>. The aircraft refueled over the Atlantic heading north to and around <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newfoundland_(island)" style="background-image: none; text-decoration: none;" title="Newfoundland (island)">Newfoundland</a>. The bomber changed course and flew northwesterly over <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baffin_Bay" style="background-image: none; text-decoration: none;" title="Baffin Bay">Baffin Bay</a> towards <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thule_Air_Base" style="background-image: none; text-decoration: none;" title="Thule Air Base">Thule Air Base</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenland" style="background-image: none; text-decoration: none;" title="Greenland">Greenland</a>. At this point it flew west across <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_Elizabeth_Islands" style="background-image: none; text-decoration: none;" title="Queen Elizabeth Islands">Queen Elizabeth Islands</a> of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada" style="background-image: none; text-decoration: none;" title="Canada">Canada</a>. Continuing to Alaska, it refueled over the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Ocean" style="background-image: none; text-decoration: none;" title="Pacific Ocean">Pacific Ocean</a> again heading south-east and returned to Sheppard AFB.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-5" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Chrome_Dome#cite_note-5" style="background-image: none; text-decoration: none;">[5]</a></sup></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="background-color: #38761d; font-size: large;">B-52 Airborne Nuclear Alert route from <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homestead_Air_Force_Base" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; text-decoration: none;" title="Homestead Air Force Base">Homestead AFB</a>, FL to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italy" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; text-decoration: none;" title="Italy">Italy</a>.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="background-color: #38761d; font-size: large;">The program was involved in the following <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_accidents_and_incidents_involving_military_aircraft_(1960%E2%80%931974)" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; text-decoration: none;" title="List of accidents and incidents involving military aircraft (1960–1974)">nuclear-weapons accidents</a>:</span></b></div>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1961_Yuba_City_B-52_crash" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; text-decoration: none;" title="1961 Yuba City B-52 crash"><b><span style="background-color: #38761d; color: black; font-size: large;">1961 Yuba City B-52 crash</span></b></a></li>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><b><span style="background-color: #38761d; font-size: large;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1968_Thule_Air_Base_B-52_crash" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; text-decoration: none;" title="1968 Thule Air Base B-52 crash">1968 Thule Air Base B-52 crash</a>. The Thule accident signaled the end of the program on January 22, 1968.</span></b></li>
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<li id="cite_note-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><b><span style="background-color: #38761d; font-size: large;"><span class="mw-cite-backlink" style="user-select: none;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Chrome_Dome#cite_ref-1" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; text-decoration: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="border: 0px !important; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); height: 1px !important; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px !important; position: absolute !important; top: -99999px; user-select: none; width: 1px !important;">Jump up</span>^</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><cite class="citation book" id="CITEREFCroddyWirtz2005" style="font-style: inherit; word-wrap: break-word;">Croddy, Eric; Wirtz, James J. (2005). <a class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=ZzlNgS70OHAC" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent), url("data:image/svg+xml,%3C%3Fxml%20version%3D%221.0%22%20encoding%3D%22UTF-8%22%20standalone%3D%22no%22%3F%3E%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20width%3D%2212%22%20height%3D%2212%22%3E%3Cpath%20fill%3D%22%23fff%22%20stroke%3D%22%2306c%22%20d%3D%22M1.5%204.518h5.982V10.5H1.5z%22%2F%3E%3Cpath%20d%3D%22M5.765%201H11v5.39L9.427%207.937l-1.31-1.31L5.393%209.35l-2.69-2.688%202.81-2.808L4.2%202.544z%22%20fill%3D%22%2306f%22%2F%3E%3Cpath%20d%3D%22M9.995%202.004l.022%204.885L8.2%205.07%205.32%207.95%204.09%206.723l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z%22%20fill%3D%22%23fff%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E"); background-position: right center; background-repeat: no-repeat, repeat; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration: none;"><i>Weapons of Mass Destruction</i></a>. ABC-CLIO. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Standard_Book_Number" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; text-decoration: none;" title="International Standard Book Number">ISBN</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/1-85109-490-3" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; text-decoration: none;" title="Special:BookSources/1-85109-490-3">1-85109-490-3</a>. <q style="quotes: "\"" "\"" "'" "'";">The U.S. alert operation, code-named Chrome Dome, was a realistic training mission</q></cite><span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AOperation+Chrome+Dome&rft.aufirst=Eric&rft.aulast=Croddy&rft.au=Wirtz%2C+James+J.&rft.btitle=Weapons+of+Mass+Destruction&rft.date=2005&rft.genre=book&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DZzlNgS70OHAC&rft.isbn=1-85109-490-3&rft.pub=ABC-CLIO&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook"></span></span></span></b></li>
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<span style="background-color: orange;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: large;"><strong><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">THIS DECLASSIFIED FILM OF THE OPERATION HEADSTART PROJECT THAT KEPT B-52s COMBAT READY AIRBORNE ON 20hr FLIGHTS WITH A NEW FLIGHT AIRBORNE EVERY SIX HOURS </span></strong> <strong><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">CARRYING</span></strong> <strong><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">FULL CREW AND BOMB PACKAGE AS WELL AS TARGET CONFIRMATION ORDERS LOCKED UP IN A SAFE ON BOARD THE BOMBER A HOLLYWOOD VIEW OF THIS WAS IN DR STRANGELOVE WITH SLIM PICKENS AS THE PILOT READY FOR "TOE TO TOE NUCLEAR COMBAT WITH THE RUSSKIES" THESE AIRCRAFT DEPARTED LORING AFB IN MAINE AND FLEW PRE ARRANGED PATTERNS FOR 20 HRS EATING SPECIALLY SUPPLIED MEALS AND WORKED AND RESTED IN SHIFTS. THE FOOTAGE SHOWN WAS FOR BRIEFING THE JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF AND EVEN THE PRESIDENT ON THE OPERATION. THE NARRATOR IS COMPLETELY CONVINCED THAT A RUSSIAN STRIKE VIA ICBMS AND BOMBERS IS GOING TO HAPPEN AND THE UNITED STATES CAN ONLY BE READY FOR THIS. FOOTAGE LIKE THIS IS PRICELESS AND IT MAY SHOW A LITTLE WEAR BUT IT IS COMPELLING TO WATCH AND SEE THE TANKERS REFUELING B-52s WITH ONE EYE COVERED IN CASE A NUCLEAR DEVICE WERE TO GO OFF AND BLIND THE KC-135 REFUELING OPERATOR HE COULD REMOVE THE EYE PATCH AND USE THE ONE COVERED AND IT HAS THE B-52 CREWS FLYING WITH THEIR PROTECTION FROM FLASH AND RADIATION WINDOW SHIELDS FLYING BY INSTRUMENTS, THE THING THAT MAKES THIS SO SPECIAL IS THESE CREWS WERE FLYING REAL MISSIONS WHILE BEING FILMED. GREAT COLD WAR HISTORY, AND THIS IS PART ONE></span></strong></span></span></span><br />
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<strong><span style="background-color: orange; color: black; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: large;">OF FLIGHT HAS GONE BY OPERTION CHROME DOME AND THAT OP FLEW COMBAT READY AIRBORNE ALERT TWENTY FOUR HOURS A DAY 365 DAYS A YEAR MORE INFORMATION ON THIS COLD WAR TACTIC AND OPERATION CAN BE FOUND BELOW IF YOU WERE A PART OF THIS PLEASE LEAVE A COMMENT BELOW AND A BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF YOUR PART IN THIS, YOUR MEMORIES ARE IMPORTANT TO FUTURE GENERATIONS ARE JUST E-MAIL ME @ FALLOUTSHELTERNYC@GMAIL.COM</span></strong></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">(SEE BELOW ) OF ART FRAMED AND HUNG AND THE LAST POST OF THE FOUR COMICS IS THE ORIGINAL COVER OF THE COMIC BOOK. IT SHOULD ALSO BE SAID THE COVER DEPICTING THE COMMIE SUBMARINE AND JETS ATTACKING IT IS ALSO FOR SALE ON NEW AMERICANA-</span><span style="background-color: blue; color: white; font-size: large;">Etsy.com/shop/newamericana </span><span style="color: red; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"> PLEASE IF YOU ARE A LOVER OF THIS TYPE OF ART VISIT NEW AMERICANA THE BEST BY FAR ON ETSY. TELL EM FALLOUT SHELTER NYC SENT YOU. I AM SO IMPRESSED WITH THEM I AM GIVING THEM THEIR PROPS ON MY BLOG THEY SENT ME MY PRINT CHECKING ALL THINGS TO ENSURE IT WAS CORRECT! VERY FRIENDLY AND THEY EVEN TOOK A LOOK AT THE BLOG AND NOTICED MY LOVE OF ATOMIC EVERYTHING AND SENT ME A SECOND PRINT THAT I MENTIONED WAS A GREAT PRINT I WAS TOTALLY BLOWN AWAY BY THEIR CUSTOMER RELATIONS GREAT PEOPLE GREAT STUFF THE LINK IS HERE VISIT THEIR PAGE AND CHECK OUT THEIR STUFF I CANNOT SAY IT ENOUGH!!</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><b style="background-color: blue;"><span style="color: white;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; text-align: start;" /></span><span style="color: white;">The thing I enjoy about running my Etsy shop is seeing the old posters I found, most of them faded, wrinkled, and torn, restored to their original state. I use my background in graphic design to carefully retouch and recolor the posters, many of which have set abandoned for 50+ years.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; text-align: start;" /><span style="color: white;">As a photographer, I've worked for shoe and makeup companies, photographed for magazines, and created album artwork for many successful recording artists. </span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; text-align: start;" /><span style="color: white;">Photography was a passion of mine that introduced me to graphic design, and I've continued to explore my interest by photographing everything from my travels and sharing pieces of those experiences with the world.</span></b></span></td></tr>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large;"><b style="background-color: blue;">The comic I found to be most interest was the comic “Only A Strong America Can Prevent ATOMIC WAR!” produced in the year 1952-1953 by Ace Comics. This comic is a series of four comics at all project the outcomes that atomic war would bring. The sole purpose of this comic was to show the horror and devastation that would come of an atomic war, especially on American soil. At this point, the American public had already understood the devastation that can occur after the dropping of an Atomic bomb in a city, because we had dropped two ending World War II. Now that the Soviet Union had access to Atomic Weaponry, fear of an attack on American Soil was especially present.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large;"><b style="background-color: blue;"><a href="https://afternewton.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/comic.png" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="comic" class=" wp-image-414 alignleft" data-attachment-id="414" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-description="" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":""}" data-image-title="comic" data-large-file="https://afternewton.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/comic.png?w=474" data-medium-file="https://afternewton.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/comic.png?w=169&h=237" data-orig-file="https://afternewton.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/comic.png" data-orig-size="1088,1525" data-permalink="https://afternewton.wordpress.com/2014/06/21/atomic-comic-atomic-war/comic/" height="640" sizes="(max-width: 169px) 100vw, 169px" src="https://afternewton.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/comic.png?w=169&h=237" srcset="https://afternewton.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/comic.png?w=169&h=237 169w, https://afternewton.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/comic.png?w=338&h=474 338w, https://afternewton.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/comic.png?w=107&h=150 107w, https://afternewton.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/comic.png?w=214&h=300 214w" style="border: 0px; float: left; margin: 7px 24px 7px 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" width="456" /></a><br />This comic starts out with talk of a major peace treaty, in which the United States and United Nations are all around a table while Russia announces their call for peace. With everyone believing war was over, Russia sends over atomic bombs destroying Chicago, New York, and Detroit, starting an age of destruction and atomic war. After this initial attack from the Russians catching Americans off guard, the remaining comics are a series of counterattacks, retaliations, and military strategic planning to catch the Russians off guard, and from the eyes of the Russians catching the Americans off guard.<br />The setting of this comic is supposed to be the year 1960 in which many more atomic weapons have been created and are currently being used in war. I found many of the instruments the comic chose to talk about as interesting. At the time this comic was produced they had just finished a prototype of an atomic weapon that could be fired from the ground. This weapon, an M65 Atomic Cannon nicknamed “Atomic Annie,” is used throughout the comic, but is not called “Atomic Annie” in the comic. Other futuristic scientific weapons used in the comic include a Hydrogen bomb (which in real life began construction in 50 under Truman’s order), atomic handguns, jet boats that can dive under water for extended periods of time, naphtha-phosphorus guns, fluorine gas flame throwers, a Russian satellite carrying atomic weapons, and my personal favorite the Russian high frequency sonar weapon called the “Pulzerizers.”<br /><a href="https://afternewton.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/pulverizer.png" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="pulverizer" class="size-medium wp-image-411 alignright" data-attachment-id="411" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-description="" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":""}" data-image-title="pulverizer" data-large-file="https://afternewton.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/pulverizer.png?w=474" data-medium-file="https://afternewton.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/pulverizer.png?w=199&h=300" data-orig-file="https://afternewton.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/pulverizer.png" data-orig-size="1048,1578" data-permalink="https://afternewton.wordpress.com/?attachment_id=411" height="400" sizes="(max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px" src="https://afternewton.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/pulverizer.png?w=199&h=300" srcset="https://afternewton.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/pulverizer.png?w=199&h=300 199w, https://afternewton.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/pulverizer.png?w=398&h=600 398w, https://afternewton.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/pulverizer.png?w=100&h=150 100w" style="border: 0px; float: right; height: auto; margin: 7px 0px 7px 24px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" width="265" /></a>These fictional “Pulverizers” were used to melt anything metallic that the Americans were using, rendering them defenseless against the Russian attack. In this specific issue, two engineers are arguing with the old-timer commander about how old-fashioned war tactics are not going to beat this new scientific warfare. They argue that science can only be fought by science and we will be wiped out if we don’t compete with the advanced scientific weaponry that they have by creating it ourselves.<br /><a href="https://afternewton.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/reason.png" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="reason" class=" wp-image-412 alignleft" data-attachment-id="412" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-description="" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":""}" data-image-title="reason" data-large-file="https://afternewton.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/reason.png?w=474" data-medium-file="https://afternewton.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/reason.png?w=154&h=228" data-orig-file="https://afternewton.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/reason.png" data-orig-size="1020,1505" data-permalink="https://afternewton.wordpress.com/?attachment_id=412" height="640" sizes="(max-width: 154px) 100vw, 154px" src="https://afternewton.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/reason.png?w=154&h=228" srcset="https://afternewton.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/reason.png?w=154&h=228 154w, https://afternewton.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/reason.png?w=308&h=454 308w, https://afternewton.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/reason.png?w=102&h=150 102w, https://afternewton.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/reason.png?w=203&h=300 203w" style="border: 0px; float: left; height: auto; margin: 7px 24px 7px 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" width="434" /></a>Overall I think it showed the American thoughts of war, as a game of scientific accomplishments that would eventually lead to the destruction of the entire world if ever put into action. And that is why the title of the comic is “Only A Strong America Can Prevent ATOMIC WAR!” and as always NYC is a entire cover showing its detailed destruction so New Yorkers have been nuked by War Planners at RAND, Propaganda And Civil Defense Literature , Russian Art, now Comic Books are we awaiting our destruction?</b></span></div>
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