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A fascinating step back in time to the Cold War. An abandoned shelter under a DC public school.
Abandoned - INSIDER
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Cold War
American History
World History
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Very interesting. Occasionally some one buys a house and finds an abandoned shelter.
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I remember these shelters quite well. At Charleston AFB we had a designated shelter for us dependants at our school. It was 3 miles from ground zero and would only have kept us safe for about as long as it took to penetrate the concrete walls that had no lead shielding.
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Lt Col Charlie Brown
We had one in the apartment building we lived in. I remember seeing big containers of water down there.
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Lt Col Charlie Brown - In Chicago, the underground tunnels for the trains had sub-basements that were completely stocked for such emergencies. These were beneath the tracks of the trains. They were actually discovered years ago after a flood. And Al Capone had his own tunnel system that could have used as a fallout shelter.
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Lt Col Charlie Brown
LTC (Join to see) - amazing what is underneath things...imagine what archaeologists are going to find 10,000 years from now.
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