State CD fallout shelter map for Danvers. In 19, Massachusetts and local communities began planning and marking public fallout shelters in coordination with the local Civil Defense volunteers responsible for emergency preparedness. The Danvers Chamber of Commerce worked with the VFW to construct an example home shelter on display near Danvers Square for interested Danversites to use as a model for their own homes. Danvers, like towns across the country, took preparations in case the “hell bomb” fell.ĭuring the 1950s, some citizens built makeshift fallout shelters in their cellars and constructed small concrete buildings in their backyards.
Once the Soviet Union detonated their first atomic bomb using stolen US intelligence in 1949, both sides had the capability of annihilating one another. During the Cold War, Americans across the country feared the outbreak of nuclear war – a conflict with the potential to end all life on earth.
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