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Walton W. McCarthy (born 1951) is an American businessman and mechanical engineer and is known as an advocate for creating scientific standards for the underground shelter industry. [1] [2] McCarthy is a Principle Mechanical Engineer [3] with NORAD Shelter Systems LLC, a Texas underground blast shelter company formed 2016. [4]
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
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 ...
In 1942 a large complex of tunnels and shelters was established under the park, [4] capable of sheltering 20,400 people. [ 5 ] The tunnels were designed by city engineer James Tyler, and were estimated to cost £120,000 (about £6 per head), with £90,000 of the cost met by the government and the rest by Auckland City.
Weapons Storage and Security System (WS3) is a system including electronic controls and vaults built into the floors of Protective Aircraft Shelters (PAS) on several NATO military airfields all over the world. These vaults are used for safe special weapons storage, typically of tactical B61 nuclear bombs.
With thousands of North Korean artillery pieces little more than 30 miles away, Seoul has established a vast underground network of air-raid shelters.
A briefcase or suitcase bomb with about 50 pounds (22.67 kg) of explosives has a 150-foot (46 m) standoff distance. [3] Larger car bombs or truck bombs have a much larger standoff distance, as the blast radius is bigger. [3] A car bomb with a 500-pound (226.79 kg) bomb has a 320-foot (97.5 m) standoff distance. [3]
The government's census concluded that the Nordic nation of 5.5 million people has some 50,500 bomb shelters that can fit 4.8 million inhabitants in them in case of an emergency or an attack, the ...