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Show May 4, 1!)7:5 Signpost Page 5 In time of nuclear disaster head for fallout fruit cellars Bomb shelters ... remember when? Was it that long ago, that citizens of our great country would lie awake nights, waiting for the eminent atomic attack, conjuring thoughts of an Armageddon without a hiding place, and mentally construct their own fallout shelters? Yes, few were constructed. ( Even fewer were ever used. ) Thanks can be given to the Office of Civil Defense as well as others for supplying accurate plans for constructing small hermitages or larger hermitages during our bomb shelter fad. "A new poster had suddenly appeared ... and represented simply the monstrous figure of a Eurasian soldier ... with a submachine gun ... The thing had been plastered on every wall, even out numbering the portraits of Big Brother. The proles, normally apathetic about the war, were being lashed into one of their periodical frenzies of patriotism." (1984, Orwell) Although bomb shelters are common in our modern history, the 1961 Berlin crisis, followed by the Soviet Union testing a 50- megaton nuclear bomb, brought to every American the thought of a personal refuge. When president Kennedy appointed every American to provide protection for himself and family by building a fallout sanctuary, tens of thousands answered.Yet, with the thaw of the cold war and as thoughts of imminent annihilation dwindled, so did shelter construction. In 1969, with the advent of the ABM program, the Office of Civil Defense again offered to Congress a possible $2.5 million in tax incentives to homeowners to construct fallout asylums. Congress rejected the idea. So now you're saying, "My neighbors told me I was a fool to build it ... and I guess I was." Don't despair, there are still several ways one can save face. 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