The 1964 Civil Defense Postures: Public Response

Abstract

All available spaces which provide good protection against fallout will be marked as shelters and stocked with everything necessary for survival. +2.29 CD-2 There will be fallout shelters available for all Americans. Existing spaces will be used, other spaces vrill be altered to provide protection, and as ueeded, new fallout shelters will be built. +2.13 CD-3 In tense situations which might precede a war, communities near military bases-plus some large cities-will evacuate their people to safer areas where fallout shelters will be available. +2.05 CD-4 There will be fallout shelters throughout the nation, and also sheltersagainst nuclear blast, heat, and chemical and biological agents in large cities.