was it actually built?
How did I only learn today that the USA built underground schools as fallout shelters in the 1960s and 1970s?!pic.twitter.com/D4lfVQ13mk
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i know, they built shelters and shelter architecture infused some other buildings. but was this complex built? just curious.
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! Have any of them survived?
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Apparently some of them are still in use:http://dukeschools.com/history/
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ty! I suppose a school that doubles as a tornado shelter would be particularly useful in Oklahoma.
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Because you didn't read Kenneth Rose's outstanding 2001 book "One Nation Underground"! I reviewed it here: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00963402.2003.11460681 ….pic.twitter.com/N1XMVVrSV5
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Have been reading it just this last week, in fact! Super interesting.
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And beautifully written.
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Great book; need to re-read it for next time I teach my Nuke Age class
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@99piorg has an episode about bomb shelter schoolshttp://99percentinvisible.org/episode/cold-war-kids/ …Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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pretty sure the elementary school @ carswell was underground. @ eglin they were like "meh. just a bunch of systems command kids. who cares?"
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there's an episode of a podcast called 99 percent invisible all about it!
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Wow, it's like the Shelter Church proposal, which AFAIK never became real.http://blog.nuclearsecrecy.com/2012/12/21/duck-and-cover-all-over-again/#comment-13449 …
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That's really interesting. I'd read of plans but had not seen pix and stats. Any still operational? Have you mapped them?
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no easy feat in Oklahoma, where solid bedrock starts three feet down in most places
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