Relics from the Cold War, the aging shelters that once numbered in the thousands in schools, courthouses and churches haven’t been maintained. 26, 2017 photo, a container of waterless hand cleaner sits in a storage room inside an abandoned Cold War era Civil Defense bunker in New Orleans. (Max Becherer /The Advocate via AP) Advocate staff photo by MAX BECHERER And conventional wisdom has changed about whether such a shelter system is necessary in an age when an attack is more likely to come from a weak rogue state or terrorist group rather than a superpower. 26, 2017 photo, old office equipment stands in a room near the entryway of a Cold War era Civil Defense bunker located in the neutral ground of West End Boulevard near Robert E. The fallout shelters, marked with metal signs featuring the symbol for radiation - three joined triangles inside a circle - were set up in tens of thousands of buildings nationwide in the early 1960s amid the nuclear arms race. 26, 2017 photo, a flashlight illuminates the main command center of a Cold War era Civil Defense bunker in New Orleans. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer) Mary AltafferĪ bay of bunkbeds can be seen in a crescent-shaped room inside a Cold War-era Civil Defense bunker in New Orleans. Experts say the shelters in schools and courthouses are often aging relics from the Cold War that haven't been maintained. In a real nuclear strike, taking cover in a building bearing the rusted yellow fallout-shelter symbol may not be the best option anymore. 16, 2018 photo, pedestrians pass a fallout shelter sign hanging outside the Cooper Station post office in New York.
In New York City alone, there were believed to be about 18,000. The fallout shelters, marked with metal signs featuring the symbol for radiation, were set up in thousands of buildings nationwide in the early 1960s amid the nuclear arms race. A fallout shelter sign hangs on a building on East 9th Street in New York City on Tuesday.
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