Send 25c and coupon below for booklet with plans and information.” Both call for simple, economical construction with big panels of waterproof plywood combined with concrete block (Basement Shelter) or sand or gravel fill (Above-Ground Shelter.) Strong, safe, dependable, durable. “New from plywood research! Two effective family fallout shelters, well within the means and ability of the average homeowner to build.

For example, the Douglas Fir Plywood Association, based in Tacoma, Washington, ran an advertisement that read:

12, 1962 cover of Life magazine featured a story headlined “The Drive for Mass Shelters” with the tease, “New Facts You Must Know About Fallout.” How-to booklets instructed people on how to build their own shelters. In the coming months, I hope to let every citizen know what steps he can take without delay to protect his family in case of attack. He went on say: “We owe that kind of insurance to our families and to our country.

Then, on July 25, after the Soviets imposed a blockade on West Berlin, Kennedy said in a nationwide televised speech that “in the event of an attack, the lives of those families which are not hit in a nuclear blast and fire can still be saved if they can be warned to take shelter and if that shelter is available.”

Diy bomb and fallout shelter plans