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Yellow directional { bidder: 'openx', params: { unit: '539971079', delDomain: 'idm-d.openx.net' }}, can be used for both interior and exterior marking of all available shelters. Therefore, the design needed to be bright—something you could see with the lighter American smokers would surely be carrying at the time—so yellow and black were chosen as the most eye-catching. var pbTabletSlots = [ These small decals were also used. Communications with the outside world; 6. Steve Inskeep, Simone Popperl, Lilly Quiroz. Signs for fallout shelters, most common in the 1960s, are still visible on many buildings today across northeastern and central Pennsylvania. Some were designated jobs focused on food supply, communication, and medicine. type: "cookie", { bidder: 'triplelift', params: { inventoryCode: 'Cambridge_SR' }}, Since the shelter remained untouched for more than five decades, many of the supplies are still there. The second requirement was that there be space in the building at a suitable distance from likely fallout. The signs are standard Fallout Shelter signs as shown in the adjoining column. Civil These examples are from the Cambridge English Corpus and from sources on the web. {code: 'ad_rightslot2', pubstack: { adUnitName: 'cdo_rightslot2', adUnitPath: '/2863368/rightslot2' }, mediaTypes: { banner: { sizes: [[300, 250], [120, 600], [160, 600]] } }, { bidder: 'ix', params: { siteId: '555365', size: [120, 600] }}, I got these paper signs from an ebay seller around 2004 or so. They are adhesive backed, are flat yellow The supplement also says the adhesive signs are intended primarily { bidder: 'triplelift', params: { inventoryCode: 'Cambridge_MidArticle' }}, "Ehhh," hedged Colby. Scientists during the Cold War era replicated the recipe to supply to the fallout shelters. 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"Tomorrow I am requesting of the Congress new funds ... to identify and mark space in existing structures — public and private — that could be used as fallout shelters in case of attack," Kennedy told the nation. { bidder: 'triplelift', params: { inventoryCode: 'Cambridge_SR' }}, The Office of Civil Defense I have never seen any still in place in person though. The Office of Civil Defense originally intended fallout shelters to use the radiation warning symbol (yellow background with a magenta circle in the center of three magenta blades) but this idea was rejected because a fallout shelter represents safety whereas the radiation warning symbol represents a hazard. 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"My husband wanted me to tell you that it's not the Langdale or 0.018" thick, with partially reflectorized surface and overlays. googletag.pubads().setTargeting("cdo_c", ["shopping_consumer_resources"]); { bidder: 'onemobile', params: { dcn: '8a969411017171829a5c82bb4deb000b', pos: 'cdo_btmslot_300x250' }}, Phase two was to equip the spaces with minimum essentials to last two weeks, by which time the danger of any fallout was expected to have passed. { bidder: 'sovrn', params: { tagid: '446381' }}, By the mid-1960s in Boston alone, more than 2,000 buildings in the city had been identified — and more than 1,000 of them were marked with the iconic black and yellow signs. Although most were trained to hide under desks, there is no protection against a nuclear bomb. The third criteria was sheer size. 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