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"The Andersons of Fort Wayne, Indiana, installed this 15- by 10- by 13-foot structure of double-hulled steel in their front yard - one of the 200,000 private shelters built in the 1950's and 60's. Designed to hold a family for two weeks, such enclosures could save the "millions" of people "threatened by radioactive fallout" after an atomic bomb blast, the federal Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization stated in 1959."
- Smithsonian Magazine