fallout shelter
Radiation protection structure
A fallout shelter is a structure designed to protect occupants from radioactive debris following a nuclear explosion.
During the Cold War, public buildings were marked as fallout shelters and families built private ones stocked with supplies.
The term evokes mid-twentieth-century nuclear anxiety: We found an old fallout shelter in the basement.
- safe roomFortified household refuge
- storm cellarSubterranean severe weather refuge
- civil defenseGovernment emergency civilian protection
- bunkerReinforced subterranean stronghold
- survival kitsPreassembled emergency supply collections
underground bunker · survival bunker · blast doors · Geiger counter · mushroom cloud · duck and cover · radiation shielding · nuclear winter · basement · emergency preparedness · Cold War · ventilation systems · protection · bomb · disaster recovery · refuge · provisions · supplies
- Cold War SitesBerlin Wall, Checkpoint Charlie, Iron Curtain, Brandenburg Gate, Kremlin
- emergency preparednessemergency kit, evacuation plan, emergency plan, emergency alerts, emergency supplies
- emergency facilitiesfire station, police station, hospital, emergency room, ER
- Emergency Safety911, 911 center, fire station, police station, ambulance
- refugesrefuge, haven, safe haven, safe house, safehouse
- secure placesprison, jail, vault, bank vault, fortress
fallout shelterground zero
Explosion's central impact point
blast zone · hot zone · kill zone · open ground · contaminated area
fallout shelteropen air
Unenclosed outdoor space
rooftop · above ground · open field · penthouse · skyscraper
fallout shelternuclear warhead
Fission-based explosive device
atomic bomb · missile base · strategic target · nuclear arsenal
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