Alex Wellerstein on Twitter: "~20 years after Dr. Strangelove premiered, FEMA actually did seriously look into using mine shafts as fallout shelters. 😒… https://t.co/KcnWKXO8yi"

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Historian of science, secrecy, and nuclear weapons. Professor of STS at @FollowStevens. UC Berkeley alum with a Harvard PhD. NUKEMAP creator. Coder and web dev.

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1. Alex Wellerstein‏Verified account @wellerstein 2 Apr 2017
  
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  Source: http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a134607.pdf …
  
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1. Pretty sure “more guns” isn’t the answer‏ @20002ist 2 Apr 2017
  
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  And The Gap was founded in 1969. Coincidence? I think not.
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1. K Michals‏ @rocbolt 2 Apr 2017
  
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  Not ideal, also not easily and quickly accessible to populated areas in almost all cases (salt mines bear Cleveland maybe)
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1. K Michals‏ @rocbolt 2 Apr 2017
  
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  Also no one excavates a mine to be able to be sealed off to the outside world, quite the opposite
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1. Gary McGraw‏ @cigitalgem 2 Apr 2017
  
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  Play a big role in various scifi books and species survival. See https://www.amazon.com/2312-Kim-Stanley-Robinson/dp/0316098116 …
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1. Richard Gilson‏ @RicGils 2 Apr 2017
  
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  Could we send the planners of this to the mine shafts in Centralia?
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