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Cold War: The Gaither Report calls for more American missiles and fallout shelters.
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Cold War
1947–1991 geopolitical rivalry between US and USSR
The Cold War was a period of global geopolitical rivalry between the United States (US) and the Soviet Union (USSR) and their respective allies, the capitalist Western Bloc and communist Eastern Bloc, which began in the aftermath of the Second World War and ended with the…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Gaither Report
1957 US report planning for a nuclear attack
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Fallout shelter
Enclosed space designated to protect occupants from radioactive debris from a nuclear explosion
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