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Originally Posted by Hugh R

LOL my Dad was a nuclear engineer at MIT in the 60s-80s he had a bomb shelter built in our backyard, it was a railroad tanker car reinforced for outside pressure and buried about 20 feet underground. It had air vents, and a slide from the basement to the unit. Obviously never used, thinking back, and I'm no nuclear engineer, I think 10 miles from Boston we would have been convection ovened anyway.

I assume it had some sort of heavy duty air filtration? What was the plan/purpose, short term, like days or a week or two or long term, months? I've never known anyone that had one and would love to hear more about it.

And yes, being on the north side of the east coast probably means you would have been toast.

I've always found the whole bomb shelter thing fascinating. I'd love to be able to see/explore some now. I'm sure there weren't that many around because they were probably out of financial reach for most folks, but I often wonder what happened to them.