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In places where a standard shelter could not be constructed, a common alternative is a cement construct called Migunit (מיגונית), lit. small shelter. It is intended to protect from bombs but not from earthquakes. The standard migunit has a rectangular body with an extra extended entrance. [5]
The Underground World Home was an exhibit at the 1964 New York World's Fair of a partially underground house which doubled as a bomb shelter.Designed by architect Jay Swayze, who made a specialty of underground homes, it was situated on the campus of the expo besides the Hall of Science and north of the expo's heliport in Flushing Meadows–Corona Park in Queens.
The home was outfitted with an emergency generator and sewage system. The above ground structure was a garage with a door between two large garage doors. The door led to the shelter which had 2 large steel lined things with lead to protect against radiation. [4] [6] The house was designed to make the occupant feel as if they were above ground.
A shelter can easily be added in a new basement construction by taking an existing corner and adding two poured walls and a ceiling. Some vendors provide true blast shelters engineered to provide good protection to individual families at modest cost. One common design approach uses fiber-reinforced plastic shells. Compressive protection may be ...
A fallout shelter is a shelter designed specifically for a nuclear war, with thick walls made from materials intended to block the radiation from fallout resulting from a nuclear explosion. Many such shelters [1] were constructed as civil defense measures during the Cold War. A blast shelter protects against
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