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Fallout Shelter became the most popular free iOS application in the U.S. and UK within a day of its release, [56] and the most popular iOS game on June 26, 2015. [57] By June 12, 2016, Fallout Shelter had over 50 million players. [58] Studio director Todd Howard estimated they had 75 million players by February 2017.
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It differs from a fallout shelter, in that its main purpose is to protect from shock waves and overpressure instead of from radioactive precipitation, as a fallout shelter does. It is also possible for a shelter to protect from both blasts and fallout. Blast shelters are a vital form of protection from nuclear attacks and are employed in civil ...
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
Nuclear War Survival Skills or NWSS, by Cresson Kearny, is a civil defense manual. It contains information gleaned from research performed at Oak Ridge National Laboratory during the Cold War, as well as from Kearny's extensive jungle living and international travels.
Project Greek Island (previously code-named "Project Casper" [1]) was a United States government continuity program located at the Greenbrier hotel in West Virginia. [2] The facility was decommissioned in 1992 after the program was exposed by The Washington Post.
FEMA P-320, Taking Shelter from the Storm: Building a Safe Room for Your Home or Small Business (2014) [3] and ICC/NSSA Standard for the Design and Construction of Storm Shelters [4] provide engineering and testing requirements to ensure that above ground shelters manufactured to the published specifications will withstand winds in excess of ...
The Morrison shelter, officially termed Table (Morrison) Indoor Shelter, had a cage-like construction beneath it. It was designed by John Baker and named after Herbert Morrison, the Minister of Home Security at the time. It was the result of the realisation that due to the lack of house cellars it was necessary to develop an effective type of ...