Have added some up-to-date info re Swiss fall out shelters I have seen whilst living there. Oates 'I may be some time') Cadmium 10:23, 26 February 2006 (UTC) Reply I will try and repeat this set of calculation for A-bomb fallout (in the words of Captn. I have added the diagrams, someone might want to improve the formatting of the diagrams to make them look nicer. Cadmium -The preceding comment was added on 16:12, 19 February 2006. ![]() These will be more complex as more isotopes will be present. When/if I get the time, I might add a set of calcs. will be for a person in the open, and for a person with either 10 cm, 20 cm or 30 cm of concrete to protect them. time for the chernobyl fallout soon, the calcs. I will add some graphs of gamma dose rate vs. According to the relevant style guide, this should not be changed without broad consensus. This article is written in American English, which has its own spelling conventions ( color, defense, traveled) and some terms that are used in it may be different or absent from other varieties of English. This article has been rated as High-importance on the project's importance scale. Architecture Wikipedia:WikiProject Architecture Template:WikiProject Architecture Architecture articles If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks. This article is within the scope of WikiProject Architecture, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Architecture on Wikipedia. Referencing and citation: criterion not metĪssociated task forces (periods and conflicts):.This article has been checked against the following criteria for B-Class status: This article has been rated as C-class on the project's quality scale. Military history Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history Template:WikiProject Military history military history articles To use this banner, please see the full instructions. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the project and see a list of open tasks. This article is within the scope of the Military history WikiProject. This article has been rated as C-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale. ![]() Cold War Wikipedia:WikiProject Cold War Template:WikiProject Cold War Cold War articles This article is within the scope of WikiProject Cold War, a project which is currently considered to be inactive. One result was a much-maligned bunker architecture, which was not so much a particular style as a philosophy of building and urbanism that shifted focus from nuclear annihilation to urban unrest.This article is of interest to the following WikiProjects: Yet the partnership between architecture and civil defense, Monteyne argues, helped guide professional design practice and influenced the perception and use of urban and suburban spaces. Neither the civil defense bureaucracy nor the architectural profession was monolithic, however, and Monteyne shows that architecture for civil defense was a contested and often inconsistent project, reflecting specific assumptions about race, gender, class, and power.ĭespite official rhetoric, civil defense planning in the United States was, ultimately, a failure due to a lack of federal funding, contradictions and ambiguities in fallout shelter design, and growing resistance to its political and cultural implications. For architects who participated in this federal effort, their involvement in the national security apparatus granted them expert status in the Cold War. Officials in the federal government tasked with protecting American citizens and communities in the event of a nuclear attack relied on architects and urban planners to demonstrate the importance and efficacy of both purpose-built and ad hoc fallout shelters. In Fallout Shelter, David Monteyne traces the partnership that developed between architects and civil defense authorities during the 1950s and 1960s. ![]() government plans to survey, design, and build fallout shelters, the president of the American Institute of Architects, Philip Will, told the organization’s members that “all practicing architects should prepare themselves to render this vital service to the nation and to their clients.” In an era of nuclear weapons, he argued, architectural expertise could “preserve us from decimation.”
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