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Title	Facts About Fallout Protection Pamphlet
Subject	Daily Life Military Ohio Fallout shelters Nuclear fallout Nuclear weapons Atomic bomb Cold War Civil defense
Place	Ohio Washington (District of Columbia)
Description	This pamphlet, titled "Facts About Fallout Protection" was distributed throughout Ohio and the United States in the late 1950s. It encourages citizens to listen for CONELRAD (CONtrol of ELectronic RADiation) radio stations 640 and 1240 to stay informed of an emergency, and to prepare themselves and their families by creating fallout shelters. According to the pamphlet, fallout shelters should include food, water, and sleeping quarters for a family for two weeks. The pamphlet is 13 pages long and measures 3.25" x 8" (8.26 x 20.32 cm). In the 1950s, many Americans were concerned about the rise of communism and especially the Soviet Union. The dropping of the atomic bombs at Hiroshima and Nagasaki by the United States in 1945 began an arms race between the United States and the Soviet Union--each nation sought to develop more destructive weapons than the other. In the so-called Cold War, the two nations struggled for political, ideological, and economic superiority. Concerns over potential nuclear war during the 1950s and 1960s led to a government campaign to teach defense strategies such as "duck and cover" and to encourage citizens to create fallout shelters to protect them from nuclear attacks.
Creator	United States. Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization
Date of Original	April, 1958
Collection	Civil Defense Adult Education Files
Source	Published material; State Archives Series 2329
Format	book
Submitting Institution	Ohio Historical Society
Rights	Online access is provided for research purposes only. For rights and reproduction requests or more information, go to http://www.ohiohistory.org/images/information
Type	Text
Date created	2010-06-06

Title	Om3170_3812939_001
Rights	Online access is provided for research purposes only. For rights and reproduction requests or more information, go to http://www.ohiohistory.org/images/information
File Name	Om3170_3812939_001.tif
Image Height	3259
Image Width	1347
File Size	1176.432 KB
Full Text	factsabout protection
Date created	2009-01-07

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