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<p>Anne Marie Wheeler <a href="http://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/a-caving-i-have-gone" target="_self">explores</a> bomb shelters from the 1961 Community Fallout Shelter Program. She visits caves that were used as shelters in sparsely populated, but militarily important, parts of Idaho:</p>
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<p>In an area with very few large buildings capable of supporting a community shelter, and an economy that certainly wouldn’t support a new, large suburban shopping center, the cavernous landscape provided a natural, but very afterthoughtish answer to the shelter question. I haven’t found a whole lot of information about what made certain caves suitable shelters and others not, aside from the ability to create a &quot;spot&quot; within the cave turned shelter for less than $100 ($775 in 2012). A spot seems to have included 1 quart of water, 700 calories of food (that’s&#0160;<em>one</em>&#0160;Big Mac) per day, along with, sanitation supplies (toilet paper, cups, etc.) and radiation detection instruments for one person. No word on bunks, blankets or anything of that sort.</p>
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