FALLOUT 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 FENCE
AIR RAID DRILL OF 1955 - THIS OPENS WITH US GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS IN FLIGHT FROM WASHINGTON AS A NUCLEAR ATTACK IS UNDERWAY ON THE UNITED STATES KEEPING WITH THE CONTINUITY OF US GOVERNMENT EVEN THE PRESIDENT WAS EVACUATED TO WHAT IS NOW KNOWN AS MOUNT WEATHER AND IT SHOWS POLICE AND CIVIL DEFENSE HERDING NEW YORKERS INTO SUBWAY STATIONS AROUND 42nd STREET AS CITY BUSES AND ALL TRAFFIC IS STOPPED DURING THE DRILL THE OUTCOME.... NYC LOST 4 MILLION RESIDENTS FROM THE HYDROGEN BOMBS DROPPED ON NYC, FUNNY THE WHOLE COUNTRY PARTICIPATED AND THE ONLY PLACE THEY MENTION AS GETTING NUKED WAS NEW YORK? FIGURES...........****for more info on operation alert see older posts****
EVENTUALLY I WILL TRY AND FIND THE SHELTER LOCATION ,CAPACITY,WHEN IT
WAS ENTERED AS IN SERVICE, DID THE CIVIL DEFENSE ADD SUPPLIES AND
THE CONDITION IT IS IN TODAY. IF YOU HAVE A SHELTER YOU WOULD LIKE
TO SEE FEATURED CONTACT FALLOUT_SHELTER_NYC
THE VARIOUS TYPES OF COLD WAR ERA CIVIL DEFENSE RESCUE SQUADS JEEP,INTERNATIONAL,GMC,REO
CHICAGO's LARGE CIVIL DEFENSE FORCE THE HISTORY OF CHICAGO CIVIL DEFENSE CAN BE FOUND ONLINE
THIS MILITARY VEHICLE PURCHASED WITH FCDA FUNDS FROM THE 50/50 PURCHASE DEAL HAD TO DISPLAY A FCDA PROGRAM STICKER AND THAT IS THE YELLOW SQUARE WITH CD LOGO BEHIND FRONT TIRE, MULVANE, KANSAS ALSO HAD A VERY LARGE CIVIL DEFENSE PROGRAM
PLEASE VISIT CIVILDEFENSEMUSEUM.COM FOR LOTS OF GREAT INFO ON COLD WAR CIVILDEFENSE!
THIS CIVIL DEFENSE RESCUE TRUCK SEEMS TO BE A ANTI-COMMUNIST PROP WITH THE 1950s INVASION USA MOVIE BEING SHOWN INSIDE THE THEATRE AND ADVERTISED ON THE SIDES OF THE TRUCK, THE MOVIE IS ABOUT A COMMUNIST TAKE OVER OF THE UNITED STATES MORE INFO ABOUT THE MOVIE CAN BE FOUND ON CONELRAD.COM A SITE THAT IS VERY HIP TO COLDWAR PROPAGANDA AND WE THINK ITS ONE OF THE BEST ATOMIC ARCHIVES IN THE WORLD CHECK IT OUT!
This USAF training film was made to illustrate the step by step planning a Nuclear Attack by a unnamed country but every map and chart just happens to show the Soviet Union although i do not think it is mentioned once . This film series is quite long and to save time and space we are posting the first reel and if any Fallout Shelter NYC fans like the preview we will post it in its entirety , REEL ONE shows SAC underground and it's operations then after discussing the SAC Mission it goes on to show how well and prepared all units are if a soviet strike was inbound and the rest is how the USAF and other Military assetts would fight a Nuclear War with the Soviet Union, Classic and a real gem of Cold War Propaganda . Who the movie was made for and why it was hidden away for so long is a mystery but it is making its rounds around the Internet so please watch and leave a Comment if you want to see more!
THE SECOND EMBED IS A FOUR MINUTE CLIP OF THE ATTACK PORTION AND THE ORDER TO GO TO DEF CON ONE EMBEDDED FROM YOU TUBE
One Of the most important Information Sites on the Internet and the Place to go for Research, of United States Government Documents that deal with Cold War secrets that have been hunted down by some of this countries greatest Scholars in a quest to shed light on how Dangerous and Decieving Big Government can be is The National Security Archive at George Washington University's Nuclear VaultAn independent non-governmental research institute and library located at The George Washington University, the Archive collects and publishes declassified documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act. The Archive also serves as a repository of government records on a wide range of topics pertaining to the national security, foreign, intelligence, and economic policies of the United States. The Archive won the 1999 George Polk Award, one of U.S. journalism's most prestigious prizes, for--in the words of the citation--"piercing the self-serving veils of government secrecy, guiding journalists in the search for the truth and informing us all. The Archive obtains its materials through a variety of methods, including the Freedom of Information act, Mandatory Declassification Review, presidential paper collections, congressional records, and court testimony. Archive staff members systematically track U.S. government agencies and federal records repositories for documents that either have never been released before, or that help to shed light on the decision-making process of the U.S. government and provide the historical context underlying those decisions.
The Aircraft Companies that built the Aircraft that won 2 World Wars was primarily built here on Long Island Nassau and Suffolk county had space to build ,test and fly all sorts of Aircraft and the local population supplied the workers, Grumman , Republic, Fairchild,Gyrodyne,Douglas , Etc had operations on Long Island and the airbases and airfields were here also as it was convenient to already crowded NYC Long Islands Potato fields provided lots of room. Just about any Long Islander who has lived here at least 4 decades had family who worked at any one of these aircraft suppliers, My Grandmother Was "Rosie The Riveter" For Republic (not actually rosie just a Female worker) since all the men were fighting the war and my Grandfather worked at Grumman and was directly involved with the "Lunar Module" for the first Moon Landing, and Went on to build F-14 "TOMCATS" carrier based Jet Aircraft . Everybody had family or Relatives that worked at one of the aircraft companies or Defense Contractors during the Cold War. Jet aircraft were a common sight during the years after WW2 and through the 1970's i remember seeing many military aircraft being tested out over the Atlantic Ocean.The jet pictured is a Republic "Thunder Streak" Built during the late 1950's. and is one of the cold war jet fighters that could dogfight and carry Atomic Ordnance if the need arose. The hole that the Avionics Field left when Defense money was being spent on the prediction that since the Cold War ended wars would be small engagements and special forces type actions. One by one these companies shutdown, moved to cheaper areas of the US,or downsized and built something non defense related. Long Island never fully recovered when the big avionics industries left and as a home framer in the early 1990's out building homes near Calverton Naval Weapon Plant Grumman which was closing down by the end of summer we had daily airshows as the planes left or were repaired there moved on. The pilots would good naturedly would buzz us and dip their wings and wave some who were testing the jets stopped by the work site to talk and let us know they would fly by again, These pilots were genuinely sad knowing a era had come to a end, A lot of good came from the end of the Cold War great times to live in, But you could not feel that we all would be missing the sight and presence of these great Jet Aircraft that won wars. Now what was the Birth place of some of the worlds best aircraft and Space craft laid open to developers and to the decay of abandonment and they also are gone bulldozed and malls built on their place and if you did not know what history once existed in that space you would never know.
The United States Inter-Continental Ballistic Missile system is a very interesting subject and a Cold War Product, During the last Great War of 1939-1945 the missile made its history as a weapon of war and not of peace. What most remember is the V-Rocket program directed by a ardent Nazi Werner Von Braun. Von Braun and his team built rockets for germany during Germany's 1000 yr Reich, These missiles were to inflict damage on England for allowing Allied forces to marshal and prepare on their island. In a very deep mine in Germany the quest for a high tech weapon of the future took place as allied bombers HAMMERED the German war machine and it's people the V-1 or Buzz Bomb would launch off a rail horizontal and make its way to England with a conventional high explosive . Sounding like a cross between a Volkswagen Beetle and Bee the pulsing engine would cut out and drop down on London with no particular target. The English were terrified since it hit at random and it created an effective type of propaganda sending Britons into fear, RAF Spitfires were able to shoot down Hundreds chasing them out over the channel. The fact that the Germans were able to keep sending more without letting up led to a very frazzled nation, Von Brauns team kept on refining this weapon and improving it by coming out with the V-2 a rocket more like todays rockets . The rocket had gyroscopes and launched in a up right position and were aimed at england plus they packed a very heavy punch and were fast. When the end of the Reich came 9oo and something years early Von Braun made for the American troops and even though a SS member and ardent Nazi he and his team were sanitized through "OPERATION PAPERCLIP" the american use of important Nazis no matter their war duties. Other Germans wound up with the russians. As soon as the War ended the Cold War (a name coined in a article by The Author of "1984" George Orwell ) started. Russia Communist and America Capitalists fire and ice the new conflict started . Russians worried about the new bomb that the US Military controlled and went to work creating one and exploded theirs in 1949. The world shuddered as the US worried about the Godless Barbarians that would come over the North Pole attacking US city's . In 1951 a defensive missile went in to Testing known as "NIKE" and with the advent of THERMONUCLEAR weapons the size of these weapons went from car size down to a piece of luggage and fitting them atop a rocket was feasible, The Redstone Arsenal had Von Braun working on Rockets and the next 10 years saw the rapid expansion of rockets with ranges over 2000 miles plus the Nike program started in 1945 and was operational in 1954. Russia was nipping at America's heels tit for tat and work on a operational ICBM was priority .The Russians were first at Exploding a Hydrogen Bomb ,The first at creating a ICBM, the first to put a Satellite into orbit known as Sputnik. American morale was at an all time low as American citizens listened to the beep-beep-beep as Sputnik passed over. To add to our embarrasment the Russians far behind in their Bomber Wings pulled probably one of the best cover ups in history. During the 1955 May Day festivities and parade held in moscow. The American Intelligence was floored to see the amount of Long Range Bombers Spies and Military Intelligence agents reported this information. What they really had was (10) and they flew over the reviewing stands six or more times creating an illusion. The american rocket program was slowly moving along when news of SPUTNIK hit the Redstone Arsenal at Huntsville Alabama, Rocket programs stepped it up and the United States put their first Satellite into orbit a year later , The ICBMs tested and deployed were the Atlas, Titan, Minuteman , The first ICBMS, Atlas were operational at Vandenberg AFB and R&D on all ICBMS was getting results .at this time The US Army ARADCOM ( Army Air Defense Command) had 88 NIKE Ajax sites around US cities and 173 NIKE Hercules the latter carried a Anti - Aircraft Nuclear warhead and the NIKE Zuess was the first to shoot down a ICBM from Thousands of miles away shooting a bullet with a bullet, At this time the US Navy Submarine forces successfully launch "POLARIS" a Submarine Launched Ballistic Missile , And that led the way for the United States Navy Submarine Forces to develop the ability to carry larger warheads and MIRVS and proved to be a crucial part of the US Nuclear Triad and a very Important Assett other upgrades occured and now these sophisticated Machines carry enough Nuclear ICBMS That just one Sub carries MORE explosive weapons then all the bombs that were used in world war two.The first USAF Continental Air Defense Commands "BOMARC" Missile Squadron at McGuire AFB becomes operational in the late 1950's (THIS IS FOLLOWED BY THE SIXTH AIR DEFENSE MISSILE SQUADRON AT SUFFOLK COUNTY AFB 1959) Werner Von Braun helped the Scientists and Engineers at the Redstone Arsenal and the Atlas and Titan were upgraded 2or3 times, and Minuteman ICBMS were perfected. As the 1960s came a new President with visions of greatness for this nation put down on the table in 1962 that we would be walking on the Moon by the end of the decade. This was a bold bet but Von Braun and his team of scientists took the challenge and after building the implements of war his boyhood dream would come true and he nailed it by building rockets that would land men on the moon in 1969, this only was possible since we worked so hard and long on building vehicles to carry Nuclear Devices 6500 miles. Von Braun could fit a warhead on the top of a rocket and now he was building rockets that would carry men as a payload,this challenge proved to be no problem. America is safe thanks to these men who defended our nation and worked night and day designing weapons that proved to have peaceful purposes as well. for more info on the ICBM Program and continental missile air defense click on the above title.
