fallout shelters
Atomic bomb hideouts
Fallout shelters are structures designed to protect occupants from radioactive debris following a nuclear explosion.
During the Cold War, governments promoted building them in basements and public buildings, stocked with supplies for extended stays.
The term evokes mid-twentieth-century nuclear anxiety: The school basement doubled as a fallout shelter.
By extension, any refuge from catastrophe: Social media became her fallout shelter from real-world problems.
- civil defenseGovernment emergency civilian protection
- duck and coverEmergency protective posture
- bunkerReinforced subterranean stronghold
- radiationEnergy propagation through space
- Geiger countersIonizing radiation measurement instruments
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- bunkersbunkers, underground bunker, underground bunkers, nuclear bunker, concrete bunker
- civil defensecivil defense, air raid sirens, air raid wardens, blackouts, evacuation plans
fallout sheltersground zero
Explosion's central impact point
blast zone · open ground · open air · kill zone · hot zone
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Explosive devices using fission
atomic bombs · hydrogen bombs · ICBMs · missile silos · nuclear warheads
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