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Safe from Harm? Massive Attack Nuclear Worst-Case Scenario for Civil Protection in Germany Regarding High-Risk Zones of Exposure, Vulnerability, and Safe Havens

Challenges, 2022
New risk geographies are emerging with war and conflict resurfacing, including nuclear threats. This poses challenges to civil protection for conducting risk-informed preparedness planning.
Alexander Fekete
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US Fallout Shelter

, 2022
Being indoors (sheltering) reduces radiation exposures resulting from nuclear fallout or a power-plant accident. However, most US building types, particularly non-residential buildings, lack quantitative estimates. We provide here a high-level modeling analysis of modern US building protection based on a novel radiation protection building attribute ...
Dillon, Michael, Callen, Schwefler
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Exposure-based risk assessment and emergency management associated with the fallout of large clasts at Mount Etna [PDF]

Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 2019
Fallout of ballistic blocks and bombs ejected from eruptive vents represents a well-known hazard in areas proximal to volcanoes (mostly <5 km from the vent).
S. Osman, E. Rossi, C. Bonadonna, C. Frischknecht, D. Andronico, R. Cioni, S. Scollo   +6 more
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Fallout shelters in Zagreb after the end of World War II

Studia Lexicographica
The article is based on a revised an expanded version of the presentation entitled »Fallout Shelters in Zagreb After the End of World War II«, given at the 71st Annual International Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians, held 18–22 April
Darko Kahle
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Mutually assured construction : resurrecting the West Texas missile silos [PDF]

, 2016
A group of enthusiasts near Abilene, Texas are turning decommissioned, Cold War-era nuclear missile silos into homes, doomsday shelters, historical monuments and businesses, offering a unique glimpse into the blue-collar, do-it-yourself psyche of a ...
East, Andrew Joseph
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Architecture Dedicated to Civil Protection as an Element of Sustainable Urban Development. The Searching for a ‘New Fallout Shelters Standard’ (NFSS) for European City Centres

Buildings
The design of fallout shelters is located at the intersection of many disciplines, so this is a multifaceted challenge with a high level of engineering complexity. Nonetheless, it should be considered as part of sustainable development in a broader sense—
Agnieszka Chudzińska, Radosław Achramowicz, Przemysław Kiełb   +2 more
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Spartan Daily, October 24, 1961 [PDF]

, 1952
Volume 49, Issue 20https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/spartandaily/4207/thumbnail ...
San Jose State University, School of Journalism and Mass Communications
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Don’t Talk About Your Fallout Shelter: Civilian Perceptions of Threat and Structural Responses during the Cold War in Regina, Saskatchewan between 1958 and 1963 [PDF]

, 2019
During the Cold War, the Canadian government initiated a civil defence campaign urging private citizens to construct shelters to protect themselves from the effects of nuclear fallout.
Mushynsky, Julie
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Simple Shelters?: Monitoring Radioactive Fallout Across Canada, 1959–63 [PDF]

, 2012
During the early Cold War, the Canadian government adivsed public that they could cheaply build fallout shelters in their homes to protect their families from radiation after a nuclear war.
Burtch, Andrew
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Preparing for the Bomb: The Development of Civil Defence Policy in Canada, 1948–1963 [PDF]

, 2012
During the period 1948 to 1963 civil defence in Canada developed in a number of stages that reflected changes in technology, weaponry and scientific discovery.
Davidson, Mark
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