EARLY RADIOLOGICAL DEFENSE-RADEF CIVIL DEFENSE (1957)



RADIOLOGICAL MONITORING DURING THE COLD WAR

THE TELETYPE IN THE CIVIL DEFENSE OFFICE IS GIVING READINGS FROM MONITORING TEAMS THAT THE POST ATTACK FALLOUT IS HEADING TOWARDS NEW YORK NEW JERSEY AND MONITORING UNITS START CHECKING FOR RADIATION AT PRE SELECTED AREAS

LOCAL VOLUNTER FIRE DEPARTMENTS START TO CHECK FOR FALLOUT SO CITIZENS CAN TAKE SHELTER BEFORE GETTING DUSTED WITH RADIOACTIVE ASH AND PARTICLES

KNOWING THAT CARS EVACUATING WASHINGTON DC AFTER A NUCLEAR STRIKE ON THE CAPITOL COULD CARRY RADIOACTIVE PARTICLES AND ITEMS THAT MAY HARM OTHERS SO A NYS TROOPER MONITORS ON THE HIGHWAY

SHELTER IS ADVISED AND BEFORE THE NATIONAL FALLOUT SHELTER PLAN OR COMMUNITY SHELTER PLAN WAS DRAFTED FALLOUT SHELTER SIGNS DID NOT EXSIST UNTIL THE EARLY 1960's SO A BLACK SIGN WITH A LARGE "S" MARKED SHELTER AREAS

THE RADEF MINUTEMAN CAME FROM ALL AREAS HERE A PUBLIC WORKS OFFICIAL IS AT HIS POST AND WAITING FOR ANY CHANGES IN RADIATION

SCHOOLS WERE RESPONSIBLE FOR THEIR STUDENTS IN A EMERGENCY HERE STUDENTS ARE BEING BUSED TO A LOCAL SHELTER ,DURING THE LATE 1950s AND 1960s IT BECAME MANDATORY FOR NYS SCHOOL DISTRICTS TO INCORPERATE SHELTER WITHIN SCHOOLS THAT WERE BEING BUILT AS WELL AS HEAVY THICK WALLS THAT COULD BE SHELTER FROM A STORM AND SHIELDING FROM A NUCLEAR ATTACK, THE LONG ISLAND AREA WAS A BOOMTOWN AS CHEAP LAND WAS BOUGHT AND HOUSES BUILT AND LONG ISLAND SCHOOLS WERE UNABLE TO ACCOMMODATE THE RISE IN STUDENTS AND SCHOOLS STARTED BUILDING NEW SCHOOLS, EVERY SCHOOL DISTRICT BUILT BETWEEN 1-3 NEW BUILDINGS , FALLOUT SHELTERS WITH HIGH CAPACITY WERE INCLUDED IN BUILDING PLANS  AND WERE STOCKED WITH RATIONS AND OTHER EQUIPMENT

HERE A HIGH SCHOOL HEADING FOR SHELTER GRAB A EARLY VERSION OF RADIOLOGICAL DEVICES THAT WERE STOCKED IN SCHOOLS AS WELL

MONITORING

HERE A RADEF WORKER MONITORS RADIATION AT AN AIRPORT POSSIBLY IF PLANES EVACUATING WASHINGTON DC OR TRAVELED THROUGH THE REMAINS OF THE NUCLEAR MUSHROOM NOW A CLOUD CARRYING HEAVY FALLOUT