Fallout Shelters: Probably Useless (Let’s Never Find Out)

Stuff You Should Know

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🗓️ 1 October 2020

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

The advent of nuclear weapons and the Cold War kicked off a craze in the US for building rec rooms with foot-thick reinforced walls and outfitted with survival rations and board games. Would they work? Probably not.

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