I’m Gen-X and grew up during the cold war.

143 construction projects that had no fallout shelter funding were able to apply slanting techniques because they could be applied at no additional cost.I’ve got a hobby – a weird one – and its the study of fallout shelters and nuclear war survival. In 1965, the OCD offered the General Services Administration (GSA) and other federal agencies professional consulting services on slanting techniques for new construction. Factors involved included the location and quantity of windows and doors, site conditions, and density of walls. The term coined for installation of fallout protection in new construction was “slanting.” The goal of slanting was to incorporate fallout protection in new buildings without negatively affecting the normal function, appearance, or cost of a building. In 1965, the OCD published a volume entitled New Buildings with Fallout Shelters, which described techniques architects and engineers could use to incorporate fallout protection in new construction, sometimes for little or no additional cost. Universities began offering courses in fallout shelter design and analysis and more than 9,200 professionals had been certified as of April 1965. In 19, the OCD and AIA held fallout shelter design competitions, which featured public fallout shelter spaces in elementary schools and shopping malls. In addition, the OCD worked with professional organizations, such as the American Institute of Architects (AIA), to incorporate shelter design concepts into university curriculum. In the early 1960s, thousands of architects and engineers completed OCD-sponsored courses to become certified in fallout shelter analysis. The OCD promoted an array of shelter design techniques for use in preexisting buildings and new construction.

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