That changed recently when the city’s Department of Education decided it was time to take down as many as they could find on public school buildings. Community fallout shelters were first coordinated in public spaces like schools and libraries by the Office of Civil Defense, which was dissolved in 1970.įallout shelter signs are still seen all around the country, and while they disappear on occasion when an old building is torn down, major cities like New York have typically made no coordinated effort to remove them. And even though it might be a practical decision, removing the signs somehow feels premature.Īs Reuters reports, many of the old nuclear shelter signs you see on buildings around New York are from the 1960s and direct you to areas that are no longer nuclear fallout shelters. But that hasn’t stopped New York City officials from beginning to take down outdated nuclear fallout shelter signs posted at public schools. The US and North Korea are just one misstep away from nuclear destruction.
Experts on nuclear confrontation say that a nuclear war is a very real possibility here in the 21st century.
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