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Letter requesting an inspection of an inactivated NIKE air-defense missile site for use as a fallout shelter. Fallout shelters on military property were inspected and registered through an internal system.

Correspondence between T. J. McFadden, Deputy Director, Cuyahoga County Civil Defense, and Mr. Murray Fox, Director of the Ohio River Department of the Corps of Engineers. This concerns the purchase of a structure containing a fallout shelter and…

In the second phase of the National Fallout Shelter Survey, some structures were chosen to be used as storage facilities. These were listed in the supplemental data contained in this book. Available water, wells, sewer capability, and amount of…

Military installations were given a secondary survey measuring their capacity to protect from fallout. This book shows how the measurements were recorded. All of the reports were added to the shelter's original file. (DD form OCD-679)

List of military installations in Cuyahoga with fallout shelters as of May, 1971. These sites were of special interest, because they could also be used as secure storage facilities for supplies. 2 pages.

Interior cover of the booklet that was provided for each fallout shelter in Cuyahoga County. This gives keys to the codes that are used both on the cover of the booklet, and in the sketches contained in the pocket. There is a key to the protection…

These sketches show each facility within a larger structure, and are a worksheet for the surveyor to record wall thickness, angle of deflection, and other measurements that determined the shelter's protection factor. Building location and facility…

Each census tract in Cleveland had a book similar to this one. They listed each shelter within that tract, how many spaces were available per shelter, and the protection factor for each floor of the building. Population of each tract, both day and…