![]() ![]() Tim Howey, then-owner of the Fort Wayne home, had written a letter to the museum. Larry Bird, a curator in the division of political history at the National Museum of American History, first heard about the Cold War relic in 1991. Because it had not been sufficiently anchored, with the area’s water table in mind, it had crept back up until it finally poked through the surface. A few years later, in 1961, there was reportedly more commotion, when, at about the time of the Berlin Crisis, the Andersons had the shelter reinterred. Neighbors watched as a crane lowered the shelter, resembling a septic tank, into a pit. In 1955, the family of three purchased a steel fallout shelter, complete with four drop-down beds, a chemical pit toilet and a hand cranked air exchanger for refreshing their air supply, and had it installed 15 feet below their front lawn for a total of $1,800. The Andersons of Fort Wayne, Indiana, were preparing for nuclear fallout even before the government disseminated this booklet, which includes building plans for five basic shelters. ![]() ![]() The Family Fallout Shelter (1959), published by the United States Office of Civil and Defense mobilization These weapons create a new threat-radioactive fallout that can spread death anywhere. But we know that forces hostile to us possess weapons that could destroy us if we were unready. We do not know whether there will be war. ![]()
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