Now everyone, everywhere was a potential victim of radioactive fallout. No longer was a nuclear bomb’s killing power limited to the place where it was detonated. It threw several million tons of radioactive fallout into the atmosphere, fallout which can drift in unpredictable directions for thousands of miles over a period of years. The world witnessed the astounding power of this new weapon on March 1, 1954, when it was exploded above the Marshall Islands in the Pacific. created a new bomb - the hydrogen, or thermonuclear, bomb - that was 1,000 times as powerful as the atomic bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima in 1945. © Bomboozled / Pointed Leaf Press The roots of the family fallout shelter can be traced back to 1952, when the U.S. Doing something felt better than doing nothing. Why? How could so many people believe that hiding in an underground concrete cube would save their lives during a nuclear attack? And then, if they somehow did survive, why did they believe they could function in a post-apocalyptic world with fires raging, cities destroyed, and a landscape littered with the dead and injured? People built shelters because it was a desperate grab for empowerment in the face of the unthinkable. Tens of thousands of Americans - maybe even hundreds of thousands - actually did build shelters, and millions considered doing so. It was part of the propaganda campaign to convince the American people that they could survive a nuclear war. The family fallout shelter’s ostensible purpose - to ensure survival during and after a nuclear attack - was impossible to achieve.
You will survive if you build a family fallout shelter. the 1950s and early 1960s - were expected to be able to reconcile these two diametrically opposed thoughts: A nuclear war can destroy all life on earth. Orwell called this “Doublethink.” Similarly, Americans during the early years of the Cold War between the U.S. © Bomboozled / Pointed Leaf Press In George Orwell’s 1984, citizens of the totalitarian state of Oceania were required to accomplish the impossible task of holding two contradictory ideas in their minds and accepting both of them: War is peace.
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