There’s a threat, but it’s a different type of threat today.” had nuclear warheads pointed at each other that would devastate the world. “We’re not facing what we were facing 50 years ago, when the Soviet Union and the U.S. Irwin Redlener, head of the National Center for Disaster Preparedness at Columbia University’s Earth Institute. And conventional wisdom has changed about whether such a shelter system is necessary in an age when an attack is more likely to come from a weak rogue state or terrorist group rather than a superpower. Relics from the Cold War, the aging shelters that once numbered in the thousands in schools, courthouses and churches haven’t been maintained. Take cover in a building bearing a yellow fallout shelter symbol.īut these days, that might not be the best option, or even an option at all. A generation of Americans knew just what to do in the event of a nuclear attack - or during a major false alarm, like the one over the weekend in Hawaii.
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