Browse Items (5 total)

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)

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…