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Title: 1962 Fallout Shelter Handbook
Post by: area23 on 21 January 2010, 09:46:16 PM: For your information, this page has some hilarious suggestions on how to survive.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/wardomatic/sets/72157594417383496/
Printed five years after date, I think it still suggests the feeling of the era...

This pic in particular has a funny comment. I imagine my daughters judging me like that when they grow older.... lol
Title: Re: 1962 Fallout Shelter Handbook
Post by: Bako on 22 January 2010, 05:02:18 AM: Oh yes, I've seen this some point a coupla' or so years ago. Excellent, is it not?
Title: Re: 1962 Fallout Shelter Handbook
Post by: Arlequín on 22 January 2010, 10:21:28 AM: I'm fascinated by this sort of thing, thanks for that.

People often mock the preparations people made to defend against a nuclear war back then, but the weapons available were less powerful and less plentiful in the 60's than in the 80's. Things like 'duck and cover' and having your own shelter did enhance your survivability in 1962, just not for long after. :)
Title: Re: 1962 Fallout Shelter Handbook
Post by: Pentaro on 22 January 2010, 10:23:31 AM: Dramatic but hilarious at the same time, thanks for sharing this.
Title: Re: 1962 Fallout Shelter Handbook
Post by: Doug ex-em4 on 22 January 2010, 11:43:00 AM: Even the author's name (Chuck West) has a perfect period sound to it.

Doug
Title: Re: 1962 Fallout Shelter Handbook
Post by: Silent Invader on 22 January 2010, 12:54:58 PM: In the UK, the authorities advised a more basic form of construction, in a leaflet called Protect & Survive

http://www.atomica.co.uk/main.htm (http://www.atomica.co.uk/main.htm)

"Make your house as safe as possible....". With a couple of doors, some suitcases and the odd piece of furniture. lol
Title: Re: 1962 Fallout Shelter Handbook
Post by: Hammers on 22 January 2010, 01:01:44 PM: Dad's smoking his pipe and reading the paper and mom's reorganizing the canned food in a starched apron. That's nice.
Title: Re: 1962 Fallout Shelter Handbook
Post by: Col.Stone on 22 January 2010, 01:15:30 PM: Thanks :D

Old instructionbooks always make me laugh, :)
Title: Re: 1962 Fallout Shelter Handbook
Post by: Arlequín on 22 January 2010, 07:13:23 PM: I'm reminded of that Brendan Fraser/Christopher Walken film 'Blast from the past' :D
Title: Re: 1962 Fallout Shelter Handbook
Post by: Bako on 24 January 2010, 02:53:25 PM: Quote from: Doug em4 on 22 January 2010, 11:43:00 AM
(Chuck West)

Seems like it was implying something actually.
Title: Re: 1962 Fallout Shelter Handbook
Post by: Argonor on 23 September 2010, 11:14:04 AM: Just saw this... what are you supposed to do when the portable toilet is full??? You cannot just go outside and empty it...?
Title: Re: 1962 Fallout Shelter Handbook
Post by: Bako on 23 September 2010, 10:48:45 PM: Quote from: Argonor on 23 September 2010, 11:14:04 AM
Just saw this... what are you supposed to do when the portable toilet is full??? You cannot just go outside and empty it...?

Oh, dear... :-X
Title: Re: 1962 Fallout Shelter Handbook
Post by: Ramshackle_Curtis on 23 September 2010, 11:15:16 PM: Ye gods, if there had been a nuclear war, these schmucks would have died. We would not be here now. 8)
Title: Re: 1962 Fallout Shelter Handbook
Post by: Argonor on 24 September 2010, 10:25:52 AM: lol lol
Title: Re: 1962 Fallout Shelter Handbook
Post by: carlos marighela on 24 September 2010, 10:51:21 AM: Somewhere on my bookshelves there is a US Government tome entitled The Effects of Nuclear Warfare dating from 1962. It has some rather unamusing information regarding survival prospects, including a nifty little pull out calculator to calculate blast areas based on megatonnage. It's a rather sobering tome.

If you want rather thought provoking film that utilises most of the nuke survival docos of the time, search for a copy of The Atomic Cafe, excellent film and a wonderful soundtrack to boot.
Title: Re: 1962 Fallout Shelter Handbook
Post by: Arlequín on 24 September 2010, 04:11:44 PM: I'll second 'Atomic Cafe', I haven't enjoyed a serious film as much as that for ages! I would love to get hold of 'Panic in Year Zero' though...