Walt, however, was put into retirement in 1965, when the government decided to shift to a more communal National Fallout Shelter Program. Sure, it would be handy in the case of nuclear war, but you could use the shelter as a darkroom for photographs! It could be a place for the grandkids to stay, too.īy 1960, a Gallup poll showed that 72 percent of Americans would have favored a law requiring every community to build a bomb shelter-even though just two years later, 52 percent of people deemed their chances for survival in a nuclear attack "poor." President Eisenhower was opposed to such a plan, and offered the OCDM has a free-market alternative. The plot is self-explanatory, and the dialogue is meant to convince people that their shelter could have plenty of uses. For this holiday weekend edition of Rock Bottom, Brian Williams re-examines a Cold War clip from the 1960s called Walt Builds A Fallout Shelter. Released in 1960,"Walt Builds a Family Fallout Shelter," was released by the government's Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization (OCDM), working with the National Concrete Masonry Association.
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