Via NYT: U.S. Rethinks Strategy for the Unthinkable
Suppose the unthinkable happened, and terrorists struck New York or another big city with an atom bomb. What should people there do? The government has a surprising new message: Do not flee. Get inside any stable building and don’t come out till officials say it’s safe.
George Alexanderson/The New York Times
Employees entered a sub-basement shelter during a Port Authority Civilian Defense Drill in 1951.
Sal Veder/Associated Press
A mother and her children made a practice run for their $5,000 steel backyard fallout shelter in Sacramento, Calif., in 1961.
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