(1960s) IMAGINARY SPACES FOR AN IMAGINARY WAR: FALLOUT SHELTERS IN NEW YORK CITY

IMAGINARY SPACES FOR AN IMAGINARY WAR: FALLOUT SHELTERS IN NEW YORK CITY

FINDING A REAL FALLOUT SHELTER IN NYC

       THIS POST IS THE RESULT OF OTHERS DIGGING AROUND THE HISTORY OF NYC AND I AM GLAD TO POST IT HERE.NYC REALLY WENT FOR THE WHOLE CIVIL DEFENSE POSTURE DURING WORLD WAR TWO AND STRAIGHT IN TO THE COLD WAR, WHEN THE REALITY OF PEOPLE SHELTERING IN TARGET AREAS UNDERNEATH 50 STORY BUILDINGS MADE OF IRON AND CEMENT WAS REALIZED THE IDEA STARTED TO FADE AWAY. THE POORER AREAS OF THE FIVE BOROS IN THE RESIDENTIAL PARTS EVERY BUILDING IS CLEARLY MARKED. GO TO BROOKLYN OR THE LOWER EAST SIDE OF MANHATTAN ,THE SOUTH BRONX (ONLY LEGACY BUILDINGS THAT SURVIVED THE 1960s- 1980s SIGNS ARE EERILY STILL POSTED AND REFLECT LIGHT AS WELL AS THEIR FIRST DAY POSTED, MOST NEVER STOCKED OR IF THEY WERE THE MATERIAL WALKED OFF A LONG TIME AGO. BUT!!!! FALLOUT SHELTER HUNTERS OF NYC THERE ARE STILL SHELTERS STOCKED AND READY TO BE FOUND!! SO HUNT FOR THEM! THE INVENTORY INSIDE THESE BASEMENTS BELONGS TO WHOMEVER WANTS TO TAKE IT AS THE US GOVERNMENT AGREEMENT TO LEASE THE SPACE FOR AN EMERGENCY ATTACK OF THE NUCLEAR KIND IS NOW EXPIRED AND THE PARTIES INVOLVED ARE MOST LIKELY LONG GONE! FACTORIES ,SCHOOLS, THE PROJECTS, OLD GOVERNMENT BUILDINGS CITY OR FEDERAL , ASK TO LOOK AROUND, TAKE PICTURES AND LOOK OFFICIAL WHILE HUNTING, POSSIBLY LIKE A ARCHITECT OR A BUILDING SUPERVISOR WEAR A HARD HAT AND A SHIRT AND TIE TOPPED WITH A DAYGLO ORANGE VEST , BOOTS CARRY A FLASHLIGHT AND A BACKPACK, APPEAR TO BE LOOKING FOR THAT ADDRESS OFF A PIECE OF PAPER IN YOUR HAND WHEN APPROACHED. THIS WILL OPEN MANY DOORS AND WHAT YOU SAY AND HOW OFFICIAL YOU CAN APPEAR WILL CERTAINLY GET YOU IN! KNOW YOUR LIMITS AND CARRY A CELL PHONE ALWAYS. THE SHELTERS ARE WAITING TO BE FOUND AND IF YOU FIND ONE CONTACT ME ON THIS BLOG AND I WILL POST YOUR FIND!HAPPY SHELTER HUNTING! 

THE FIVE BORO'S BELOW AND THE RANGE OF TOTAL DESTRUCTION  ON NYC IF A A-BOMB OR H-BOMB WERE DROPPED ON NYC, THE A-BOMB IS CENTERED IN MANHATTAN IN THE 14th STREET AREA AND THE H-BOMB IS CENTERED  NEAR THE WILLIAMSBURG BRIDGE

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Let Me Die in My Footsteps: New Yorkers React to Fallout Shelters

I will not go down under the ground
‘Cause somebody tells me death’s coming round.
And I will not carry myself down to die
When I go to my grave my head will be high.

-          Bob Dylan, “Let Me Die in My Footsteps”

The above quote - from a bootleg Bob Dylan song recorded in 1962 – encapsulates some of the discomfort with the idea of fallout shelters that many Americans, including New Yorkers, shared. Dylan traced the impetus for the song to seeing a fallout shelter being built in Kansas. “As I watched them building,” said Dylan, “it struck me sort of funny that they would concentrate so much on digging a hole underground when there were so many other things they should do in life.”¹ Urban planner Robert Moses, "master builder" of New York City, expressed this same level of discomfort with the idea of building societies underground when he declared, “We are not going underground. We shall not evacuate and disperse. We shall not change our way of life. The sane people of this country will not take this threat seriously enough to support a fantastic national underground escapist program.”²

In addition to finding something un-American about the whole concept of burrowing underground, New Yorkers in particular would have been skeptical about the efficacy of a shelter program. Maps of areas of destruction caused by dropping an atomic bomb on a major American city were common in popular media and academic papers in the 1950s and 1960s. By the time of the National Fallout Shelter Survey, the Soviets had tested a fifty megaton bomb (in comparisonto the 15 Kiloton bomb dropped on Hiroshima).³ The below figure, from the Annals of the New York Acadamey of Sciences, shows the expected damage from just a twenty megaton bomb dropped on Columbus Circle.⁴

SEE BELOW FOR LARGER VERSION OF ABOVE MAP

 TIMES SQUARE AT HIGH NOON DURING OPERATION ALERT A MANDATORY FALLOUT SHELTER DRILL INVOLVING THE ENTIRE UNITED STATES

The area of destruction that would have covered most of Manhattan and significant parts of the boroughs,  It's for this reason that New Yorkers who protested against civil defense and shelters cited the "false sense of security" of the programs or the fact that they were "virtually useless". Paul S. Boyer, a historian at the Univerity of Wisconsin-Madison, said the tendency of this period towards sheltering should not be intepreted as a sign of naivete. "Throughout this period, there was an enormous level of scepticism about this civil defense strategy of fallout shelters and stockpiling."⁵

New Yorkers also would have had a unique perspective on the fallout shelter debate because the National Fallout Shelter Survey Program was so effective in - at the very least - placing fallout shelter signs around New York City. This means that the debate was not entirerly theoretical as spaces in the built environment surrounding New Yorkers would have been re-defined as fallout shelters. In light of this, the National Shelter Survey Program sometimes created interesting cases of dissonance between the Office of Civil Defense and New York City residents when its need to designate locations as fallout shelters met residents expectations of how their living or working space should be defined and used.  For instance, residents of a row of tenement houses in Harlem protested when their vermin infested building was chosen as a fallout shelter. They said they would prefer to run in a case of nuclear war rather than shelter with the rats. The Office of Civil Defense agreed to take down the signs in that case. In another instance, City College gladly accepted fallout shelter signs until it realized they were also required to house supplies to meet the requirements for a shelter. City College preferred to use its space for classrooms and said it would take down the signs even as the Office of Civil Defense insisted it would go ahead with shelter plans for the university.

This is not to suggest that all New Yorkers rejected the shelter program out of hand. There are cases, such as Chase Manhattan bank or the residences at 10 Gracie Square, where New Yorkers were enthusiastic enough about shelters to create them even before the Office of Civil Defense got around to declaring their locations as shelter space or providing them with shelter supplies. However, there are just as many cases where buildings or institutions accepted a shelter sign but reacted very casually and/or indifferently to the needs of a fallout shelter. The Waldorf Astoria Hotel is one example. They were willing to accept supplies and become the first official hotel shelter in New York City, but they placeed the fallout shelter supplies in a "temporary" location on the not safe from nuclear blast roof of the hotel. (They blamed the lack of notice for this temporary storage.)
At the end of the day, for New Yorkers and Americans as well, there was always the question of whether outliving a nuclear war was even worth it.  As one civil defense protester at City Hall Park in Manhattan wrote in a sign, "After two weeks in a shelter, then what? No food, no water, hot dust and death."

ONE OF THE MANY MARKED FALLOUT SHELTERS IN PUBLIC BUILDINGS LIKE SCHOOLS

    NYC BUILDINGS WITH COMMUNITY FALLOUT SHELTERS

LARGER VERSION OF RESEARCH OF A ATOMIC WEAPON DETONATION , TARGET NYC.

(1961) DOD FS-1 FALLOUT SHELTER SIGN 1

1984 COLD WAR POLITICS - REAGAN SPEAKS WHAT IS REALLY ON HIS MIND BRIEFLY CAUSING THE COLD WAR TO WARM UP

 United States President Ronald Reagan,

On August 11, 1984 while running for re-election, 

 was preparing to make his weekly Saturday radio

 address on National Public Radio. As a sound

 check prior to the address, Reagan made the

 following joke to the radio technicians:              

  My fellow Americans, I am 

 pleased to tell you today that I've signed legislation that will outlaw Russia forever. We  begin bombing in five 

 minutes.

The joke was a parody of the opening line of that  

 day's speech-

 today I signed legislation that will allow student

 religious groups to begin enjoying a right they've

 too long been denied — the freedom to meet in

 public high schools during nonschool hours, just

 as other student groups are allowed to do.

Contrary to popular misconception, this microphone

gaffe was not broadcast over the air, but rather

leaked later to the general populace. But the Tokyo

newspaper Yomiuri Shimbun reported in October

 1984 that the Soviet Far East Army was placed

 on a full scale

 alert after word of the statement got out, and that

 the alert was not withdrawn until 12 hours later.

 An unnamed aide to US Representative Michael

 Barnes (D-Md.) confirmed that the Pentagon was

 aware of the alert. There was no report of any

 change in the DEFCON level for the United 

States.

Though this was not the first time Reagan had joked

 prior to giving a speech or address, the Soviet

 official news agency, TASS, condemned the joke,

 declaring that "The USSR condemns this

 unprecedented and hostile attack by the US

 President" and that "this kind of behavior is

 incompatible with the great responsibility borne by

 heads of nuclear states for the destinies of their own

 people and mankind

The quip became the basis for a song titled "Five

 Minutes," as well as "A is for Atom (B is for

Bomb)" by Monte Cazazza's band The Atom

Smashers, both of which began with a clip of the 

recording. Personally i remember living in NYC at

the time and the Anti-Reagan faction went to town

over this plastering huge black and white posters of

Reagan and the words of the gaffe. Along with this

the Blossoming Punk Rock scene on the Lower East

Side used it for song material

The Cold War during Reagans presidency was 

revived and the arms race and Nuclear War fear

was there ,Some of the great movies on Nuclear War

were filmed during this period "Threads" Englands 

dark vision and " The Day After" the U.S. version 

and the new advent of  the MTV music video 

channel had a great variety of Reagan caused 

Nuclear War videos like "World Destruction" 

Afrika Boombata's and Johnny Lydons (ex Sex 

Pistol Singer) Look at Nuclear War. This continued

 until the Berlin Wall came down a few years later. 

Reagan was the last of the great Cold War 

 Presidents who adverted and detered Nuclear 

Confrontation on their watch. 

LISTEN BELOW TO THE ACTUAL CLIP 

(1963) POLITICAL PROPAGANDA - EITHER A WORLD FOR ALL GOD"S CHILDREN OR WE MUST DIE- LBJ ELECTION COMMERCIAL

"These are the stakes! To make a

 world in which all of God's children

 can live, or to go into the dark. We

 must either love each other, or we

 must die."


LBJ LETS AMERICANS KNOW THAT WE MUST MAKE A WORLD FOR ALL OF GODS CHILDREN OR GO IN TO THE DARKNESS, AND DIE, AND THE WAY WE WILL DIE IS SEEN IN THE END OF HIS COMMERCIAL AS A NUCLEAR BLAST LIGHTS UP THE SCREEN WITH THE SOUND OF THE DETONATION FOLLOWING IT.......THAT HORROR THAT HE FORECASTS AGAINST THE BACKDROP OF A NUCLEAR DETONATION THAT IS SEEN IN THE REFLECTION OF A LITTLE GIRLS EYE (WHO IS REFERRED TO AS DAISY OR THE DAISY GIRL) AS SHE IS COUNTING DAISY PETALS AND AS SHE COUNTS A MALE VOICE TAKES OVER AND COUNTS DOWN WHAT SOUNDS LIKE A NUCLEAR MISSILE LAUNCH. IT IS VERY SERIOUS AND SHOCKING IN ITS IMAGERY AND ALSO ITS WORDING. THIS WAS 1963 SO THIS WAS A LITTLE HEAVY FOR ITS DAY, BUT SO WERE HIS OTHER CAMPAIGN COMMERCIALS SHOWING THE KLAN OR OUT OF CONTROL HIPSTERS AND LONG HAIRED DRUG FUELED YOUTH TEARING UP AMERICA. ALL OF THESE VERY IMAGE HEAVY COMMERCIALS  THAT CALLED FOR STRAIGHT GOD FEARING AMERICANS TO COME OUT AND VOTE FOR HIM THE STAKES HAVE NEVER BEEN HIGHER. 
THIS HAS TO BE ONE OF THE SCARIEST ELECTION BIDS I HAVE EVER SEEN.....WELL SOME OF RONALD REAGAN'S ELECTION ADS AND QUOTES ARE ALSO KINDA SCARY TOO, BUT JOHNSON RODE THE CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS OUT WITH KENNEDY AND THAT WAS THE CLOSEST WE HAD COME TO A HOT WAR WITH THE SOVIETS. SO AFTER KENNEDY WAS ASSASSINATED AND JOHNSON WAS SWORN IN AS PRESIDENT HE TOOK ON THE BURDEN OF THE COLD WAR ,SO IF HE SAYS IN A ROUNDABOUT WAY THAT IF YOU DON'T COME OUT AND VOTE FOR ME WE ARE ALL GOING TO MARCH TOGETHER INTO A NUCLEAR APOCALYPSE THAT MIGHT OF BEEN A GOOD REASON TO VOTE FOR THE GUY. SCARY SHIT, IT IS MOST DEFINITELY A CLASSIC COLD WAR MEMORY AND HE WAS ELECTED, AND EVEN STILL SOME  AMERICANS WERE MARCHED OFF IN TO THE DARKNESS..IT WAS CALLED VIETNAM 

“LBJ’s Atomic Ad”
1964 – “Daisy Girl”

'Daisy Girl' counting her petals in 1964.

      On September 7, 1964, television advertising history was made during the broadcast of NBC’s Monday Night at The Movies.  That’s when a new kind of TV ad was first aired that would forever change the art and practice of political advertising – and to a large degree, political campaigning as well. For 1964 was the year that the negative political ad was born, initiating the clever use of image and sound to paint an opponent in negative or scary terms. No less than a presidential election was at stake.

     The Democrats, with President Lyndon B. Johnson in the White House following the assassination of John F. Kennedy, were headed for an election-year battle with Republican presidential candidate Barry Goldwater, a fierce and outspoken conservative.  The Democrats had hired a New York advertising firm to help them in their campaign.  Among the ad men enlisted was Tony Schwartz who believed that negative sentiment associated with a particular candidate could be more powerful in persuading voters than positive ones.

Photograph of an atomic blast, a version of which was also shown in the 'Daisy Girl' campaign ad.

     On the campaign trial, Goldwater had advocated the use of “tactical” nuclear weapons in Vietnam, and Lyndon Johnson’s team went right after that, trying to paint Goldwater as dangerous.  One result was the infamous“Daisy Girl” TV ad, a one-minute spot featuring a little blond girl in an open field, appearing innocent and playful, plucking petals off a daisy, counting as she went, flubbing the sequence a bit, as young children do:  “One, two, three, four, five, seven, six, six, eight, nine, nine …,”she says, counting in a slow, sing-song fashion.  Immediately following the little girl’s voice comes a man’s voice, enhanced by an echo chamber.  The girl looks up from her de-petalled flower, as if hearing the distant voice, also counting — backwards:  “Ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one, zero.”  The sound of a horrific explosion follows as the TV image changes sharply to the mushroom cloud of an atomic explosion, then an x-ray-like image of the daisy girl as the blast sound rolls out for an extended count of some long seconds.  Then comes the voice of Lyndon Johnson.  In his perfect Texas twang, pausing purposely for effect at the proper moments, Johnson offers this view:  “These are the stakes . . . To make a world in which all of God’s children can live . . . Or, to go into the darkness . . . We must either love each other, or we must die.”  The piece closes with an announcer voice-over:  “Vote for President Johnson on November 3rd.  The stakes are too high for you to stay home.”

1960-1970 THE SOVIET THREAT - A LOOK AT THE SOVIET COLD WAR MACHINE SET TO MUSIC

A LOOK AT SOVIET NUCLEAR STRATEGIC ROCKET FORCES DURING THOSE COLD WAR YEARS LOTS OF BIG MISSILE TRUCKS TEARING ASS DOWN UKRAINIAN BACKROADS SIMULATING WAR ,FOOTAGE OF THE BIG PARADES IN MOSCOW SHOWING THEIR MIGHTY NUCLEAR DETERENT WHILE THE AVERAGE SOVIET DRANK ROTGUT VODKA MADE FROM US GRAIN SHIPMENTS TO KEEP BORIS FROM STARVING SINCE THEY SPENT EVERYTHING FIGHTING THE COLD WAR TRYING SO HARD TO BEST THE US AND ITS ALLIES,CHECK THE INTERNET FOR RUSSIAN MILITARY EQUIPMENT THEIR ARE HUNDREDS OF HUGE MARSHALING POINTS THROUGHOUT RUSSIA AND ITS BREAKAWAY REPUBLICS WHERE HUNDREDS UPON HUNDREDS OF SOVIET MILITARY VEHICLES,JETS,HELICOPTERS,ARTILLERY PIECES, AND YES THOSE BIG ASS MISSILE CARRIERS ROTTING INTO THE MUD AND SNOW WITH NO FUTURE, ALL OF THAT WASTE JUST TO RUN WITH THE BIG DOGS! THE FILM FOOTAGE IS SET TO MUSIC AND IS A FITTING TRIBUTE!

COLD WAR HISTORY - A HISTORY CHANNEL LOOK AT THE SECRET NUCLEAR FACILITIES 60+ YEARS LATER

1959 - TARGET YOU - ONE OF THE BEST CIVIL DEFENSE PROPAGANDA FILMS

TARGET YOU

YOU ARE THE CITIZEN OF THE FREE WORLD AND AN AMERICAN


TOU ARE THE TARGET OF THOSE WHO WOULD TRAMPLE THE LIBERTIES OF FREE MEN ,YOU ARE IN THE BOMB SIGHTS OF THOSE WOULD TAKE YOUR FREEDOM !!YOU ARE A CITIZEN OF THE FREE WORLD A CITIZRN OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA!!! YOU ARE THE TARGET!!!! YOU ARE THE TARGET IS ONE OF MY TOP 5 COLD WAR PROPAGANDA PIECES ON NUCLEAR ATTACK. THE ANGRY VOICE OF A NARRATOR WHO SOUNDS ANGRY AND STERN AS HE SETS THE POINTS TO TAKE CARE OF BEFORE HEADING TO A PUBLIC FALLOUT SHELTER, ALSO HE TALKS ABOUT PLANS TO BUILD YOUR OWN AND NAME DROPS THE DEPT. OF CIVIL DEFENSE WASHINGTON DC. HE DISCUSSES THE GRIM TRUTH THAT NUCLEAR ATTACK WILL HAPPEN AND THAT THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES HAS STATED THAT OUR DEFENSE SYSTEM CANNOT STOP A ENEMY WITH HUNDREDS OF BOMBERS HEADING TO CITIES AROUND NORTH AMERICA. HE IS A SCARY DUDE AS HE GOES ON ABOUT YOU WILL HAVE TO APPLY FIRST AID TO THOSE HURT IN A ENEMY ATTACK AND THAT FINDING MEDICAL HELP WILL BE IMPOSSIBLE.HE ALSO BREAKSDOWN THE CONELRAD SYSTEM AND TO TUNE TO 640 AND 1240 ON YOUR AM RADIO, THE FACT THAT HE CLAIMS THAT "BEING PREPARED IS TO FIGHT THE ENEMY AS YOUR FOREFATHERS DID"! AND EVERY TIME HE ADDS A POINT HE SAYS "CHECK YOU WILL NOT USE YOUR PHONE AFTER THE ATTACK IT IS FOR EMERGENCY SERVICES". HE ALSO COMMANDS THE LISTENER WILL BE PREPARED FOR ATTACK AND USE THE SKILLS HE JUST EXPLAINED IN HIS EMOTIONLESS VOICE.THE NARATOR IS ALWAYS TALKING ABOUT THE ENEMY OR ATTACKERS, (FUNNY THAT THEY NEVER NAME THE SOVIET UNION BUT ALWAYS SHOW MISSILES AND BOMBERS COMING FROM THE VAST AREA CALLED THE SOVIET UNION.) LIKE I SAID THIS MOVIE IS A CLASSIC PROPAGANDA FILM AND ONE OF THE BEST!!! WATCH IT AND ENJOY!!!

1950s" DOOM TOWN" or" SURVIVAL CITY" NUCLEAR WEAPON EFFECTS TESTING (SUBURBAN HOUSE)

SUBURBAN HOUSE WITHIN 1 MILE FROM BLAST

SURVIVAL CITY NEWS FILM SHOWS THE OTHER STRUCTURES AND TESTS FOR THE NUCLEAR SHOT.

BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LAB " LAND OF COLD WAR SECRETS "

BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LAB COLD WAR YEARS
THE RADIATION GUINEA PIGS
SUFFOLK COUNTY RESIDENTS
AND MARSHAL ISLANDERS

BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LAB WAS PART OF THE PACIFIC ATOMIC TESTS ALTHOUGH THE BIKINI ATOLL TEST THEY DENY BEING PART OF IT. THEIR AREA OF STUDY WAS RADIATION AND ITS RESULT ON PEOPLE AND AGRICULTURE. EVEN THOUGH THE REPORTS STATE BROOKHAVEN WAS NOT PART OF THE TEST THAT DOSED PEOPLE DURING THE MARSHAL ISLAND TEST WHERE SOMEONE SCREWED UP THE YIELD OF THE TESTS POWER. THE TEST DISINTEGRATED THE ENTIRE ISLAND INCLUDING THE 5 FOOT CONCRETE OBSERVATION POSTS OR WHERE TESTS WERE FILMED, LUCKY FOR BROOKHAVEN THE FALLOUT CLOUD WAS VERY LARGE AND CAUGHT THE CREW OF  A JAPANESE FISHING VESSEL LUCKY DRAGON GIVING BROOKHAVEN SUBJECTS TO STUDY AND BEING UNLUCKY FOR THE INNOCENT PEOPLE WHO  DIED FROM THAT RESULT, THE FALLOUT WAS ACTUALLY PIECES OF THE ISLAND LAGOON AND CORAL REEF PLUS THE VERY LARGE STEL BUILDING COMPLEX & FACILITIES ON ANOTHER AREA AWAY FROM THE TEST AND THAT WAS VAPORIZED AND THAT RAINED DOWN ON THE CREW CAUSING EXTREME PAIN AND DEATH FROM THE FALLOUT THE CREW HAD RADIATION BURNS,ETC AND BNL USED THEM FOR ALMOST 40 YEARS, BESIDES TRAVELING TO TESTS BNL CONDUCTED HUNDREDS OF FALLOUT SIMULATIONS ON AGRICULTURE ON THE PROPERTY. AND HAD OTHER ATOMIC WAR SIMULATIONS LIKE THE GAMMA FIELDS. GAMMA FIELDS ARE LARGE AREAS OF WOODS OR FARM WHERE A TELEPHONE POLE HAS A BOX CONTAINING A VERY DEADLY RADIATION LIKE PLUTONIUM ATTACHED TO THE TOP. THE WOODS BELOW SIMULATE THE POST ATTACK CONDITIONS AFTER A ATOMIC ATTACK, THE LAB IS SURROUNDED BY HOMES AND STORES WHERE 45 YEARS EARLIER THE AREA AROUND THE LAB WAS DESOLATE POTATO FIELDS. ACCIDENTS THAT CAUSED RADIOACTIVE STEAM TO BE RELEASED AND THOSE DOWNWIND OF IT GOT DOSED. THESE ACCIDENTS WERE ALWAYS FOLLOWED UP BY LAB OFFICIALS CLAIMING NO HIGH LEVEL OF RADIATION WAS RELEASED. HMMMMM THAT DOESN'T EXPLAIN THE CANCER CLUSTER IN A AREA OF 15 MILES. THIS CANCER IS NOT A COMMON CANCER YET IT THRIVES AROUND THE LAB?? COULD BNL BE TESTING HUMANS WITH RADIATION AND THAT ANSWER IS YES. IT HAS NEVER BEEN ADMITTED BY BNL BUT IT HAS OCCURRED IN OTHER LABS LIKE BROOKHAVEN. BROOKHAVENS COLD WAR MISSION WAS THE STUDY OF ATOMIC BLAST FALLOUT AND ITS EFFECT ON AGRICULTURE AND HUMANS. BNL WAS PRESENT AT THE NEVADA TEST SITE BLASTS, AND PACIFIC HYDROGEN BOMB TESTS THE FACT THAT ACCIDENTAL RELEASES OF RADIATION WHERE A COMMON OCCURRENCE DURING THE 1980s ANYONE UNLUCKY TO BE DOWNWIND GOT DOSED.THE IMAGE OF BNL USING HELICOPTERS WITH CROP DUSTING RIGS TO SPRAY SIMULATED FALLOUT (RADIATION+WATER+FOOD DYE)ONTO SIMULATED FARMS AND OTHER AGRICULTURE IS SCARY SINCE WIND WOULD BLOW THAT DOWNWIND THE OTHER THING I FOUND WAS DURING THE 1950-60s THE LAB USED THE AREA WOODS TO DO TESTS .YEARS LATER A FENCE AND A HIGHWAY CAME ALONG BUT DURING SOME DIRT BIKE RIDING WE FOUND OURSELVES UNDER A FADED SIGN STATING "DANGER RADIATION" THIS AREA WAS NOT LAB PROPERTY DID THEY DO SOMETHING PEOPLE LIVING ON THE LAND SHOULD BE CONCERNED ABOUT IS IN THEIR BACKYARD? I BROUGHT THE SIGN TO THE LAB DURING A OPEN HOUSE THEY ACTUALLY TRIED TO TAKE IT AND WOULD NOT DISCLOSE ANY INFORMATION CONCERNING PAST TESTING OFF LAB PROPERTY. I CAN REALLY UNDERSTAND WHY THE LAB IS A PRIMARY SOVIET ICBM TARGET>

BELOW NEWSDAY LONG ISLANDS NEWSPAPER INVESTIGATED THE TESTING OF RADIOACTIVITY ON HUMAN SUBJECTS BY BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LAB DOCTORS AND SCIENTISTS. USING THE MARSHAL ISLAND RESIDENTS AND UNCOVERED THE TRUTH THAT BROOKHAVEN USED HUMAN SUBJECTS AS GUINEA PIGS TO TEST THE EFFECTS OF RADIOACTIVE FALLOUT CONDITIONS POST BLAST. THIS STUDY WATCHED AS THE RADIATION LEFT BY THE FALLOUT WORKED ITS WAY INTO THE FOOD CHAIN THAT THE ISLANDERS WERE EATING. WORSE, THEY ALLOWED MORE RADIOACTIVE EXPOSURE TO THE ISLANDERS NEVER WARNING THEM AND NEVER REVEALING THE TRUTH.
BROOKHAVEN LAB HAS MANY NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNING WORK ALTHOUGH THEY ACTED LIKE WAR CRIMINALS EXPOSING HUMANS TO DEADLY RADIATION KNOWINGLY.

For 43 years, doctors at Brookhaven National Laboratory were in charge of the medical care of residents of the remote Marshall Islands in the Pacific who had been exposed to radiation from nuclear bomb blasts set off by the United States during the Cold War. Newsday's investigation shows the lab knowingly allowed hundreds of island residents to live on contaminated islands so that American scientists could study the flow of radioactivity through their bodies for "scientific and military concerns." BNL also convinced some 100 Marshallese residents to have highly questionable thyroid surgery -- paying each person $25,000 to secure their cooperation -- often without their fully informed consent. After living on their contaminated islands from 1957 to 1985, the population of Rongelap fled, convinced that they were being lied to by the BNL team. They now live hundreds of miles away from their homeland. Now the Obama adminstration and the U.S. Congress will have to decide whether to pay $1 billion in damages awarded to Rongelap by the Nuclear Claims Tribunal in 2007.

Brookhaven Statement on Marshall

 Islands

August 22, 2009

In 1956, the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) turned to Brookhaven National Laboratory to continue a program of medical evaluation and care of Marshall Islanders accidentally exposed to radioactive fallout following a U.S. nuclear weapons test at Bikini atoll on March 1, 1954. Brookhaven Lab was not involved in the weapons test.

On that day, according to government reports, the wind shifted unexpectedly toward inhabited atolls just before detonation and the explosion produced higher amounts of fallout than predicted. As a result, Marshallese on the atolls of Utirik, Rongelap, and Ailinginae; American servicemen at a weather station on Rongerik Atoll; and Japanese fishermen on the vessel Lucky Dragon were all exposed to high levels of radiation.

In the aftermath of this disastrous accident, the AEC and Department of Defense dispatched an emergency medical team to the area and then continued follow-up visits. Over the next two years, several Naval physicians from that team joined the staff at Brookhaven Lab, leading to the 1956 AEC request that Brookhaven take over the medical program.

Robert Conard became head of the program, and he and colleagues made trips to the Marshall Islands every year to treat radiation-related illnesses, collect samples for laboratory analyses, and measure radiation levels in the environment. Study results were shared in scientific journals. Twenty years later, when the Department of Energy (DOE) came into being in 1977, Brookhaven was asked to maintain the program under contract to DOE.

The program ended for Brookhaven Lab in 1998. Today, DOE continues to provide annual medical screening to the Marshallese at medical clinics in the Marshall Islands and in the United States.

DOE reports annually to Congress on the health care program for the remaining members of the Marshallese population exposed to radiation resulting from the 1954 Bikini nuclear weapons test.

THIS LAB NEWSLETTER HAS AN ARTICLE THAT EXPLAINS HOW THE FALLOUT SHELTER WAS CHECKED FOR HOT SPOTS USING COBALT TO SEE HOT SPOTS, THE LAB CONDUCTED MANY OF THESE TYPE OF EXPERIMENTS USING RADIATION TO GATHER DATA ON HOW FALLOUT WOULD DAMAGE CROPS,AND AGRICULTURE AND USED VARIOUS RADIATION ON HUMAN SUBJECTS STARTING WITH THE MARSHALL ISLANDERS
AND WHO KNOWS WHAT THEY REALLY TESTED RADIATION ON DURING THE COLD WAR YEARS WHEN INFORMATION THE LAB COLLECTED WAS DEEMED FOR THE GOOD OF THE NATIONAL DEFENSE AND PROJECTS LIKE THESE WERE KEPT SECRET FOR THE NATIONS DEFENSE

USAF BROKEN ARROW NUCLEAR 911 PARTS 1 - 6 "THE NUCLEAR ACCIDENTS"

"BROKEN ARROW"

(SEE DEFINITION BELOW)

WORDS THAT STRIKE MORTAL TERROR IN THOSE THAT UNDERSTAND ITS MEANING THERE HAVE BEEN 32 REPORTED BROKEN ARROWS ALTHOUGH THE REAL NUMBER IS MOST LIKELY ALOT HIGHER.ATOM CENTRAL.COM PROBABLY THE BEST EXPERTS ON ATOMIC FILM AND HISTORY PUT THIS TOGETHER, I AM GLAD TO BRING IT TO ALL OF YOU WHO VISIT THE NYC FALLOUT SHELTER BLOG,I WAITED AND POSTED THE TRAILER TO THIS MOVIE NOW ITS HERE AND I AM HONORED TO SHOW IT! ALL 6 PARTS ARE HERE AND CAN BE WATCHED IN ONE SITTING.THIS IS A VERY WELL PUT TOGETHER FILM WITH NEVER SEEN IMAGES OR NEVER HEARD STORIES OF LOST NUKES.THIS IS A TOTAL QUALITY PRESENTATION, PLEASE VISIT atomcentral.com atom central.com A GREAT SOURCE OF INFORMATION AND HISTORY OF THE MEN AND WOMEN THAT FILMED THE ATOMIC TESTS AND MORE.THE SITE INCLUDES IMAGES AND FILM CLEANED UP TO SHOW WITH ABSOLUTE CLARITY WHAT THEY SAW SO MANY YEARS AGO! MAKE IT A STOP ON YOUR INTERNET TRAVELS AND LET US KNOW WHAT YOU THINK!

Nuclear 911

Nuclear Accidents aka "Broken Arrows"

Since 1950, there have been 32 nuclear weapon accidents, known as "Broken Arrows."

A Broken Arrow is defined as an unexpected event involving nuclear weapons that result in the accidental launching, firing, detonating, theft or loss of the weapon. To date, six nuclear weapons have been lost and never recovered. Now, recently declassified documents reveal the history and secrecy surrounding the events known as "Broken Arrows".

There have been 32 nuclear weapon accidents since 1950. Six of these nuclear weapons have been lost and never recovered. What does this say about our defense system? What does this mean to our threatened environment? What do we do to rectify these monumental "mistakes"?

Using spectacular special effects, newly uncovered and recently declassified footage, filmmaker Peter Kuran explores the accidents, incidents and exercises in the secret world of nuclear weapons.

Narrated by: Adam West
Music Performed by: Moscow Symphony Orchestra
Directed by: Peter Kuran, the award winning creator of Trinity & Beyond
Run Time: 52 minutes
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NEW YORK FEMA TARGET LISTING 1990

Nuclear Weapon Target Map for US (FEMA /September 1990)

Nuclear Threats in
New York The purpose of this page (in a post-nuclear situation) will be to map out any targets in the state that were actually nuked.
At the bottom of this page is the 1990 FEMA nuclear target map for New York. It was just a conceptual map about the nuclear threat. Even an all-out nuclear war - did not by any means mean that every site would be hit. For some states VERY FEW and POSSIBLY / PROBABLY NONE of the sites will be hit but others may have some very significant targets. Because circumstances have changed since 1990 some of the targets in many of the maps should be removed and possibly there are others that should be added.
Besides nuclear weapons there can be various radiological and other weapon hazards within your state and radiological threats may come from outside your state.
1. Nuclear power plants (think Chernoybl) for one. When the power, technology and personnel may not be available to maintain the plants - there is no telling what may happen to / with them.

2. The same applies to the storage of used nuclear fuel which presently has to be kept cooled and maintained.3. Then there might somewhere be a stockpile of nuclear weapons. 4. Storage concerns should not be with just nuclear weapons but also with biological and chemical weapons. 5. There may just be hazardous stores of industrial chemicals that are no longer being maintained and protected. 6. There can be armories and warehouses of weapons and explosives that could fall into dangerous hands. 7. Whatever may be added to this list - needs to be identified and dealt with.

The following is a conceptual map of how a nuclear event one place in the US can affect other localities. This map is based upon past prevailing wind patterns but in the expected catastrophic events they may be much different from this.

For the same reasons as fallout from power plants located elsewhere - fallout can come to your state from nuclear targets elsewhere. For this reason here is a map of all the targets that FEMA visualized in the US in 1990. In reality we should be showing nuclear targets throughout the world - because nuclear fallout can go anywhere in the world.

And we haven't even mentioned EMP. Weapons exploded at high altitude for the sole purpose of creating EMP could turn off the lights in America. Permanently. Or in any case it could take a very long time to turn them back on - if you can imagine life without electricity.

EMP - Turning off the lights in America
Nuclear Weapon Target Map for New York (FEMA-196/September 1990) THERE ARE MORE TARGETS WITHIN THE NYC/LI AREA THAN THE WHOLE STATE OF NEW YORK......
Nuclear Power in New York (FEMA-196/September 1990)

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9/23/1983 RADIATION SAFETY IN FALLOUT SHELTER ENVIRONMENT HANDBOOK

ATTENTION!

THIS HANDBOOK IS THE CURRENT HANDBOOK FOR RADIATION METERS THAT WERE COMMONLY STOCKED IN FALLOUT SHELTERS, IT CAN BE READ BY CLICKING THE LINK PROVIDED WITH EACH CHAPTER, IT IS A MUST READ IF YOU HAVE A CIVIL DEFENSE SURVEY METER OR GEIGER COUNTER AND AN EXCELLENT GUIDE ON RADIOLOGICAL EMERGENCY SAFETY.

THE PDF OF THIS BOOK CAN BE DOWNLOADED AT THE LINK BELOW OR READ FROM HERE

Radiation Safety In Shelters. 

FEMA   CPG 2-6.4   September 23, 1983

Handbook for finding and providing the best protection in shelters

with the use of instruments for detecting radiation.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

	PAGE
Cover & Forward	cover
CHECKLIST "A" FOR IMMEDIATE ACTION (Yellow Pages)	ix
CHECKLIST "B" STANDARD CHECKLIST FOR RADIOLOGICAL MONITORS (Blue Pages)	xiii
CHAPTER 1 - GENERAL INFORMATION
Why You Need This Handbook	1-1
Selection of Radiological Monitors	1-2
Definitions of Special Terms	1-2
What is Nuclear Radiation?	1-2
How Radioactive Fallout is Produced	1-3
How Nuclear Radiation Harms Our Bodies	1-4
Alpha Radiation	1-4
Beta Radiation	1-4
Gamma Radiation	1-4
How Quantities of Nuclear Radiation are Measured	1-4
How Much Nuclear Radiation is Harmful?	1-5
Natural Background Levels	1-5
Symptoms of Radiation Injury	1-5
Effects and Levels of Sickness from Brief Exposure	1-6
Long-Term Effects	1-8
Contamination of Food and Water	1-9
How You Can Shield Yourself from Gamma Radiation	1-10
How Fallout Radioactivity Arrives and Decays	1-12
Fallout from One Weapon	1-12
Fallout from Many Weapons	1-12
After Fallout Stops Coming Down	1-13
The Seven-Ten Rule	1-13
Radioactive Decay	1-15
Rainout	1-15
CHAPTER 2 - INSTRUMENTS FOR DETECTING NUCLEAR RADIATION
What Is Needed	2-1
What If There Are No Instruments?	2-1
The Survey Meter	2-2
The Dosimeter	2-3
The Dosimeter Charger	2-4
CHAPTER 3 - HOW TO GET YOUR RADIOLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS READY FOR OPERATION
Before You Begin	3-1
Preparation for Using the Survey Meter	3-1
Preliminary	3-1
Installing the Battery in the Survey Meter	3-1
Checking the Battery and the Instrument (operational check)	3-2
Reading the Survey Meter	3-4
Troubleshooting the Survey Meter	3-7
Preparation for Using the Dosimeter Charger	3-7
Preliminary	3-7
Installing the Battery in the Charger	3-8
Checking the Battery and the Dosimeter Charger (operational check)	3-8
Troubleshooting the Dosimeter Charger	3-12
Preparation for Using the Dosimeter	3-13
Preliminary	3-13
Charging or Zeroing the Dosimeter	3-13
Checking the Dosimeter for Leaks	3-15
Reading the Dosimeter	3-16
CHAPTER 4 - RADIATION SAFETY PROCEDURES
Introduction	4-1
Before Fallout Arrives	4-1
Organization of Shelter Population	4-2
Checking Out the Shelter	4-4
Best Protection	4-5
Space	4-8
Radiation Safety Improvement	4-10
Openings and Ventilation	4-10
Materials for Shielding	4-12
Entranceway Problems	4-12
Restroom and Water Locations	4-13
Dosimeter Locations	4-13
Instrument Storage	4-14
Light Sources	4-14
Writing Supplies	4-14
Getting and Checking the Instruments	4-15
Informing the People in the Shelter About Radiation Exposure	4-15
Watching for Fallout to Arrive	4-16
While Fallout is Coming Down	4-19
Decontamination of People Caught in Fallout	4-19
Finding the Places with the Lowest Radiation Levels in the Shelter	4-20
The Time-Averaging Method	4-22
Finding and Covering Up "Leaks" in Gamma Shielding	4-27
Gamma Shielding by People	4-31
Keeping Track of Everyone's Radiation Exposure (Group Dosimetry)	4-32
After Fallout Has Stopped Coming Down	4-33
Forecasting Radiation Exposure	4-33
The Penalty Table	4-37
Use of the Penalty Table as a Guide for Operations	4-38
Checking Radiation Levels Beyond the Immediate Shelter Area	4-40
Leaving the Shelter	4-42
APPENDICES
A. Glossary	A-1
B. Conversion of Standard Time Designation to Twenty-Four Hour Time	B-1
C. Bibliography	C-1
D. Acknowledgement	D-1
Sample Forms for RADIATION EXPOSURE RECORD	forms

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http://www.survivalring.org/RadiationSafetyInShelters.pdf