The Library of Congress calls the buildings, "exceptionally important examples of the architecture of the Cold War." Above, you see one of these shelters, which could have housed 100 people in the event of an attack. That meant creating fallout shelters for those people. I know you would not want to do less.MIT and IBM were both heavily involved in the construction of SAGE and, in some sense, it was an important precursor to the networks that became the Internet.ĭespite the electronics, SAGE required people to actually operate the system and respond to any threats it might detect. In the coming months, I hope to let every citizen know what steps he can take without delay to protect his family in case of attack. "We owe that kind of insurance to our families and to our country. Against the backdrop of escalating tensions with the Soviet Union, Kennedy urged Americans to build bomb shelters in a speech he delivered on Oct. The change came after John Kennedy became president. Bruner and daughter Rhonda, 8, pose in their home fallout shelter in Knoxville, Tenn. That changed with the 1957 publication of the Gaither Report, which backed the building of shelters that "permit people to come out of the shelters and survive." Mrs.
Even though public drills in the event of a nuclear attack was routine in the 1950s, the Eisenhower administration did not actively promote the construction of home fallout shelters. In the late 1950s and early 1960s, Cold War tensions and threat of nuclear war convinced government leaders in the United States that millions of lives could be saved by the construction of home fallout shelters.
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