People were instructed to put 50 miles between them and Fargo-Moorhead. Authorities developed a plan: If World War III breaks out, we’d all get the heck out of here! "It's not a public safety guidepost like it was back in the day.In 1957, Civil Defense named Fargo-Moorhead a possible target for Soviet Atom Bombs. " historical relics," Schlegelmilch said.
We just need to find a way to disseminate this information without declaring a Nuclear Attack Preparedness Day ("Then everyone's thinking: Well, what do you know that I don't?" Schlegelmilch said) and to make clear those old fallout signs no longer indicate an upkeep shelter. "Glass isn't really great at shielding from radiation, but these old concrete, brick buildings are actually very effective," Schlegelmilch said.Īnd Schlegelmilch said most homes and workplaces contain a place-often in the middle of the building, often in the basement-that will protect us from radiation for the 24 hours (and no longer multiple weeks) we need to shelter there. In 2019, we face the threat of smaller kiloton devices wielded by not only more players but also, likely, more erratic ones. "The irony is: The notion of protecting yourself from fallout is actually more relevant now than it was at the peak of the fallout shelter program," Schlegelmilch said.įor four decades during the Cold War, a nuclear attack almost certainly guaranteed nuclear annihilation at the behest of one of two superpowers with massive nuclear arsenals. The city's Department of Education scheduled a clear shutdown in 2017, removing the signs from all of its buildings to avoid the confusion of someone fleeing there in an emergency and finding a locked building with no survival supplies inside. "The never really had a clear startup or a clear shutdown," Schlegelmilch said. In the late 1970s, FEMA assumed responsibility for civil defense, thermonuclear weapons further reduced the survivability of a nuclear attack and fallout shelters fell into disrepair.
"They bolted these really cool-looking signs to the side of the building and forgot about them," Schlegelmilch said. "No matter where we live," the Duck and Cover narrator says, "in the city or the country, we must be ready all the time for the atomic bomb."
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