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Terrorism fallout shelters: Is it time to resurrect nuclear civil defense?

  • Written by Timothy J. Jorgensen, Director of the Health Physics and Radiation Protection Graduate Program and Associate Professor of Radiation Medicine, Georgetown University
imageCould we use Cold War fallout shelters?pigmonkey/flickr, CC BY-SA

Fifty-five years ago, on Oct. 6, 1961, President John F. Kennedy advised Americans to build an underground protective room, commonly known as a “fallout shelter,” in their homes.

At that time – the middle of the Cold War – the U.S. feared that a nuclear attack...

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