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  Air-raid shelter - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Air raid shelters are structures for the protection of the civil population as well as military personnel against enemy attacks from the air.
Shelter marshals were appointed, whose function it was to keep order, give first aid, and assist in case of the flooding of the tunnels.
It was then that these shelters began to become highly unpopular, and shortly afterwards householders were being encouraged to build or have built private shelters on their properties, or within their houses, with materials being supplied by the government.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bomb_shelter   (2688 words)

  
 Boise Bomb Shelter
The Boise Bomb Shelter was the first shelter of its type in the United States.
The facility was constructed in 1961 for The Highlands Community Shelter, Inc. On September 15, 1972 the property was sold to The Independent School District of Boise City, who owned and operated the facility for over thirty years.
The Boise Bomb Shelter is located in the historical north end of Boise, adjacent to Crane Creek Country Club.
www.boisebombshelter.com   (327 words)

  
 Atomic Bombing: How to Protect Yourself
Japanese survived in shelters as close as 900 feet to ground zero.
But from science's knowledge of the destructive effects of the bomb, through blast, heat and nuclear radiation, present planning is based upon a distance of half a mile from ground zero.
Preparing for the atom bomb is even harder, and it may seem far less necessary.
www.foody.org /atomic/atomic10.html   (2121 words)

  
 The individual personnel shelter is designed towards the following goals:
The shelter should survive the blast wave as close as 520 miles from the point of impact of a K/T size impactor.
Other types of underground shelters, such as root cellars may be weak and provide only minimal protection and may need significant strengthening to survive the blast effects.
Fallout shelters are designed to provide protection against radioactive fallout, not necessarily the blast effects of an atomic bomb detonation or a comet impact.
personals.galaxyinternet.net /tunga/I11.htm   (1301 words)

  
 Edgeworth bomb shelter recalls another time when homeland security was a real concern
The home's previous owner, Barbara Briller, told the couple about the shelter and said she had kept it bolted shut and surrounded by briar bushes to keep curious children away.
The shelter -- about 12 feet by 12 feet, plus a corridor leading from the old staircase -- is large enough for occupants to comfortably walk around.
He said the opening to the bomb shelter was obscured by a wooden fence and by dog houses on either side of the trap door.
www.post-gazette.com /neigh_north/20020529ncover0529p2.asp   (659 words)

  
 Bomb shelter ruined in error
Behind the rusted door, buried under 9 feet of earth and 3 feet of steel-reinforced cement, lies the corpse of a bomb shelter that the Reicherts built more than 40 years ago to keep their children and grandchildren safe from natural and nuclear disasters.
He claims the property was overgrown and littered with tires, and that the shelter was a neighborhood hazard.
Effie and Mark Reichert said they maintained the shelter's food supplies and amenities, adding that the mess was with the abandoned house and garage behind it.
www.freep.com /news/mich/wbomb6.htm   (703 words)

  
 Bomb Shelter - Davis Wiki
As far as nicknames go, this house was simply 720 long before anyone knew there was a bomb shelter in the back yard.
To their amazement they discovered that, in fact, in 1962 a bomb shelter was built in the backyard, although its location was not revealed on the permit.
The bomb shelter is used for many shows, mostly (if not all?) are accoustic sets by major names in the Music Scene here in Davis.
daviswiki.org /Bomb_Shelter   (381 words)

  
 Iraq Diaries: The 400 Souls in Amiriya Shelter   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The Amiriya Bomb Shelter in western Baghdad is a reinforced concrete building that sheltered up to 1,000 civilians throughout the first Gulf War.
The Coalition waging war on Iraq had the coordinates to the shelter, along with the acknowledgement that it was simply a shelter for civilians.
A former caretaker of the shelter, Umm Ghadia, lost eight of her nine children in the bombing.
electroniciraq.net /news/1291.shtml   (1028 words)

  
 The Hindu : Narrative of grief
WITNESS to "the murderous persecution", she is today the "spirit" of the bomb shelter where 1,186 residents of the A'meriya area of Baghdad were killed one night in an Allied bomb attack during the Gulf War.
Having lost nine family members in the A'meriya Bomb Shelter on February 13, 1991, this middle-aged woman has made the eerie premises her home.
Then, she briefs them on the number of bomb shelters in Baghdad and their basic details.
www.hinduonnet.com /2001/02/11/stories/13111284.htm   (693 words)

  
 FIRST-PERSON: The lamentable ‘bomb shelter’ - (BP)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
He said we were going to engage in an exercise called the “bomb shelter.” While our teacher did not realize it at the time, he was leading us in an assignment designed to devalue human life.
The “bomb shelter” presented the following scenario: The world’s population was going to be destroyed by a nuclear blast.
Since I was first introduced to the values-clarifying “bomb shelter” in 1978, I have watched American society increasingly accept the position that human life is relative.
www.bpnews.net /bpnews.asp?ID=19187   (807 words)

  
 RealEstateJournal | Progressive Swiss Say 'Bomb Shelters Away'
Instead, he suggests we convert our shelter into a wine cellar, as he has done with his own shelter at home, and then sign up for our neighborhood communal bunker, which is buried beneath the school soccer field.
While the shelters are most commonly used as storage rooms, reports have reached the federal civil-protection office in Bern that people are using their shelters, particularly the bigger ones, for all sorts of post-Cold War pleasures.
During the Gulf War, and then during the NATO bombing in Yugoslavia, civil-defense officials received a rush of citizen queries about the location of their particular shelter place.
www.realestatejournal.com /homeimprove/homeimprove/20010125-thurow.html   (1239 words)

  
 THE SAMUEL CROWELL BOMB SHELTER THESIS:
From this assumption Crowell deduces that all gas-tight doors "with peepholes" are "air-raid shelter doors." Because he does not see the necessity of a "peephole" in a disinfestation chamber, Crowell declares that a gas-tight door "with peepholes" cannot be a door of such a chamber (pp.
In the first place, it is not true that "all air-raid shelter doors were equipped with peepholes." Some of the doors in regulation air-raid shelters [5] lacked them, such as the one in illustration 1.
The air-raid shelters of BW 98 successively constructed constituted sections of BW 98 that were marked with a sign such as the addition of a letter.
www.vho.org /GB/c/CM/Crowell-final-eng.html   (12634 words)

  
 Air Raid Shelters   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
One countermeasure to the 'deep shelter mentality' and to ensure the widest possible dispersion of civilians during a raid was by distributing shelters which could be erected in householders' gardens.
That first winter of 1939/40 the shelters were not needed though, when the rains came and they flooded, they provided valuable training to the Auxiliary Fire Service in the use of their suction hose.
Although the Anderson shelter was liable to flooding, it proved itself to be remarkably effective during the blitz.
www.fortunecity.co.uk /meltingpot/oxford/330/shel/shel2.html   (468 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | UK | The flat-pack bomb shelter unveiled
Forget buying a new shed this weekend, a flat-pack bomb shelter has been launched that slots together in hours and can protect against a terrorist blast.
Corus - formerly British Steel - is marketing the Surefast shelter as a response to "growing concerns over terrorism", however, Dr Tolloczko says his team has not jumped on the 11 September bandwagon.
Aside from protecting people from a major terrorist bomb blast - one City of London building already has a Bi-Steel car park for just this purpose - Corus says a Bi-Steel bank vault would be almost impregnable to even determined robbers.
news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/uk_news/2821687.stm   (409 words)

  
 Survival Shelters, Emergency Survival Shelters, fallout shelters
The shelters are designed to withstand blasts to the 150 psi range.
Building home shelters is not possible for all people, especially for those living in apartments.
It could also be the case that after building a home shelter, a nuclear event would occur when we are not at home.
www.disastershelters.net   (470 words)

  
 Author John Smolens, short stories My One and Only Bomb Shelter
I'd stopped at every house in Forest Glen, but it was on Patton that I finally found my one and only bomb shelter.
Many said they had been planning on building a bomb shelter, but hadn't gotten around to it yet.
Once it was established that the civilian did not have a bomb shelter, we asked a series of questions about the basement.
www.nmu.edu /english/smolens/bomb.htm   (1488 words)

  
 CNN - Bomb shelter outlives usefulness - Nov. 7, 1995   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
CNN - Bomb shelter outlives usefulness - Nov. 7, 1995
In fact, it was a high-tech fallout shelter for members of Congress in case of nuclear attack.
The shelter existed not so much to save their lives, but to save the government.
www.cnn.com /US/9511/gimme_shelter   (472 words)

  
 SUV Bomb Shelter   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Switzerland is definitely at the forefront offering bomb shelter availability for its entire citizenry.
Going beyond just the bomb shelter coverage, Switzerland requires all males 18 years old to not only go through a year of military service, but upon leaving, they keep their automatic weapon to take home.
One of his topics in the book is how to use your vehicle as an emergency bomb shelter.
www.888webtoday.com /leroy84.html   (299 words)

  
 Nuclear Bomb Shelter - NBC WMD - Nuclear Biological Chemical Shelters
The product was specifically designed and developed to protect people during and after disasters such as tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes, storms, forest fires, power failures, radioactive iodine gas from a nuclear power plant accident, and biological-chemical terrorism warfare.
The SP6 is classified as tornado or storm shelter and the SP6-NBC is classified as an NBC (nuclear-biological-chemical warfare) shelter.
The product was specifically designed and developed to protect people during and after disasters such as tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes, storms, forest fires, power failures, nuclear power plant accidents, nuclear/chemical terrorism, and full-scale protracted nuclear, chemical and biological war.
www.alpinesurvival.com /nuclear_bomb_shelters.html   (1399 words)

  
 Better Safe Than Sorry: Build That Bomb Shelter Now!
And in most cases, your average 1955 bomb shelter really only needs a good sweeping, a change of radiation filters and a fresh 30-day supply of food and reading materials to be certified Grade A ready.
In it, they give plans for shelters as simple as a basement-based concrete block shelter you can build yourself for only $150-$200 (in 1959 prices) to very fancy underground preshaped metal and concrete models.
I thought a bomb shelter would be little more than an overgrown c...
www.suite101.com /article.cfm/cold_war/92261/2   (542 words)

  
 Sentence :: Bomb Shelter Poetry :: Voicebox Records
You might want to spend some time on the dancefloor with a hip-hop tune if the beat is tight, but you might think about turning a chance acquaintance into a serious relationship if you connect with the lyrics.
It makes you think of war victims hiding in bomb shelters, left with nothing but a pen and a pad to scribble down their hopes and fears.
Therefore, being well aware of the importance of understanding rapper Sentence's "Bomb Shelter Poetry", I found myself in a situation the rewind button couldn't get me out of.
www.rapreviews.com /archive/2002_10_bombshelter.html   (1135 words)

  
 Bomb Shelter   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
American Storm Shelter is listed as a vendor in the Dallas Area.
I understand that the founding members of this company redesigned the shelters after several other company's shelters failed the people that were in them during the F-5.
As I recall the only survivors were a family who was safely tucked away in their shelter.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/545632/posts   (727 words)

  
 American Safe Room--the best NBC overpressure filters for your bomb shelter or safe room
Then, the safe, breathable air is blown into your living area (safe room, bomb shelter, or protected space) with just the right force to produce a slight overpressure in the room.
This overpressure keeps toxins from migrating into your safe room or bomb shelter from any other entry source.
This is the same technology used by the US military to keep soldiers alive in a CBRN environment.
www.americansaferoom.com   (546 words)

  
 CNN - Things are booming in former Russian bomb shelter - January 5, 1999
CNN - Things are booming in former Russian bomb shelter - January 5, 1999
Things are booming in former Russian bomb shelter
YAROSLAVL, Russia (CNN) -- There are some advantages to opening a night club in a Russian bomb shelter.
www.cnn.com /WORLD/europe/9901/05/fringe/nuclear.disco   (234 words)

  
 Heinlein's Shelter   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
They lived in a house of their own design, beneath which, at the height of the Cold War, they constructed a bomb shelter.
The Heinleins' Colorado Springs home and its bomb shelter were prominent settings in Heinlein's 1964 novel, FARNHAM'S FREEHOLD.
Heinlein is now deceased), and their original home torn down, the bomb shelter was still in existance.
www.robertcrais.com /worldheinlein.htm   (173 words)

  
 AOL CityGuide: - Boston - Bomb Shelter - Bar/Club   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
For many years, the Bomb Shelter, in the basement of the Book Store Restaurant on Mayo Beach, was WellfleetÂ’s version of the Old Colony.
It is still the fishermanÂ’s and tradesmanÂ’s bar in Wellfleet, but sometime in the past couple of years the appeal of its wood paneling, pool table and friendly owner, Steve Parlante, began to bring in the summer crowd, the college crowd and the weekend crowd.
The traditional Wellfleet pub crawl ends at the Bomb Shelter.
cityguide.aol.com /boston/entertainment/venue.adp?vid=84072   (285 words)

  
 LT52 - BOMB-SHELTER THEOLOGY
At the opposite side of the diagram, in compartment 3, we have all the myriad non-revealed propositions, both true and false, of the human sciences (e.g., "Water is made up of hydrogen and oxygen;" "There are six planets in our solar system;" "Japan bombed Pearl Harbor in 1941").
They are on open, exposed, ground rather than down in the bomb-shelter; but faith assures us that any bombs directed at them by skeptical scientists will always in fact miss the target, falling safely to the right or the left.
It is so intent on guarding the faith from all possible attacks from the "bombs" of the secular scholarly disciplines that it unwittingly prods the Church toward a suicidal self-contradiction.
www.rtforum.org /lt/lt52.html   (11863 words)

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