Cold War Fallout Shelter Opens at Museum

Pictured is the museum’s fully outfitted 1950s fallout shelter, where civilians could expect to spend two weeks or more in order to survive a nuclear attack.

Another recent addition to the museum is the full-scale fallout shelter in the Cold War Room.  This fallout shelter replicates in perfect detail the type of basement shelter that many Americans built during the 1950s and 1960s when fears of an imminent nuclear attack by the Soviet Union or Communist China were very real. The fallout shelter chillingly reminds visitors of a frightening time in U.S. history.