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Construction of combined underground school and fallout shelter.
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The fallout shelter triangle, not to be confused with the symbol for radiation.
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A Nuclear Fallout Shelter sign in Las Vegas, Nevada.
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Illustration of a pre-fabricated steel and concrete family fallout shelter from the Cold War era in the early 1960s.
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An example of the direction dangerous nuclear fallout could travel after the even of an attack.
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A pole-covered trench.
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This photo taken in 1970 shows a French nuclear bomb test at Mururoa, French Polynesia. Researchers have established a link between France\'s nuclear tests over the Pacific Ocean in the late 1960s and the high incidence of thyroid cancer in Polynesia.