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American chemist and Nobel laureate Dr Willard Libby (1908 - 1980) in the fallout shelter he built himself near his home in California, USA, circa 1960. The shelter, intended to withstand a nuclear blast, burnt down in the Bel Air Fire of November 1961. Libby was on the General Advisory Committee of the Atomic Energy Commission. (Photo by/Pix/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)

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By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Apr 26, 2024

Londoners emerge safely from underground bomb shelters after an air raid. (Photo by © CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

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By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Apr 19, 2024

Cold War nuclear bunker supply check

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By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Apr 12, 2024

A woman selling biscuits to people using an underground tube station as an air raid shelter, U.K., January 1, 1940. Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images

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By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Apr 5, 2024

Patrick Mueller opens a bunker door of the Deltalis Swiss Mountain Data Center, a former Swiss Army bunker built in the Alps during the Cold War, on November 18, 2013, near Attinghausen, Central Switzerland.

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By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Mar 29, 2024

15th June 1939: Workmen digging deep air raid shelters in Stockport. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

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By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Mar 22, 2024

Nuclear bomb drills, Cambridge, Massachusetts, November 18, 1964: Some volunteers line up to get their bedding during a test held at the air raid shelter beneath the Cambridge City Hall Annex.

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By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Mar 15, 2024

A photo taken on February 8, 2022 shows an underground passage in the former vault of the Bundesbank Bunker Museum in Cochem, western Germany. The Bundesbank Bunker was a bunker of the German Bundesbank in Cochem for the storage of an emergency currency. From 1964 to 1988, up to 15 billion marks were stored in the top-secret facility to protect Germany from a national economic crisis in the event of hyperinflation caused by the Cold War.

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By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Mar 8, 2024

3/12/1941- New York, NY: Hotel completes air raid shelter. A few of the Allerton House's guests showed how comfortable and practical are the conveniences incorporated in the new air-raid shelter completed in the sub-basement of the hotel. The shelter is approximately 45 feet underground, and an auxiliary lighting system has been installed in case the hotel's own light plant goes out of order. This photo shows four women happily playing cards under a sign that says "Shelter." Bettmann via Getty Images.

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By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Mar 1, 2024

U.S. soldiers take time out to read newspapers and magazines above and below their sandbagged bunker in a base camp set up in a jungle clearing in South Vietnam near the Cambodian border on November 28, 1966. AP Photo/Horst Faas.

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By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Feb 23, 2024

Study in Survival. Lake Charles, Louisiana: Leading a sheltered life at Lake Charles, Louisiana, McNeese State College students, Kelly B. McRight (left) and Dan R. Sistrunk, are deep in a survival test. They spent three days inside this fallout shelter in an experiment conducted by the college and civil defense officials. October 9, 1961. Bettmann via Getty Images.

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By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Feb 16, 2024

A family, each carrying their gas masks in a little box, enter the dug-out air raid shelter in their garden, 1939. (Photo by © Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

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By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Feb 9, 2024

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Bunker Talk: Let’s Talk About All The Things We Did And Didn’t Cover This Week

By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Feb 2, 2024

The vehicular entrance to the massive underground Marieberget bomb shelter in Vasteras, Sweden

Bunker Talk: Let’s Talk About All The Things We Did And Didn’t Cover This Week

By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Jan 26, 2024

A small group of shelterers knit and read the evening newspaper in this small section of an air raid shelter under the railway arches, somewhere in South East London. Makeshift beds have been constructed from crates and planks of wood. This photograph was probably taken in November 1940

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By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Jan 19, 2024

Marines, wounded in the battle for Iwo Jima, are sheltered in a Japanese concrete air raid shelter which was not completely destroyed in the three-day bombardment and aerial attack preceding the landing.

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By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Jan 12, 2024