# Anyone here have a cold-war-era bomb shelter...

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [September 9, 2004, 6:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-here-have-a-cold-war-era-bomb-shelter/263744 "2004-09-09T06:32:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![Dan\_Turk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@Dan\_Turk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dan_Turk)\
**Post date:** [September 9, 2004, 6:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-here-have-a-cold-war-era-bomb-shelter/263744/1 "2004-09-09T06:32:53Z")

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…on their property?

How big is it? How old is it? Have you used it? Pics?

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**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\
**Post date:** [September 9, 2004, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-here-have-a-cold-war-era-bomb-shelter/263744/2 "2004-09-09T14:21:13Z")

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… and does anybody have a _post-_ cold-war-era bomb shelter, and, if so, why?

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**Author:** ![GorillaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)\
**Post date:** [September 9, 2004, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-here-have-a-cold-war-era-bomb-shelter/263744/3 "2004-09-09T17:19:26Z")

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There’s plenty of defunct military shelters around here…want me to break into some for you? 😃

(although I do know of people who’ve done just that…)

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**Author:** ![Tripler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripler/32/21807_2.png) [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)\
**Post date:** [September 10, 2004, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-here-have-a-cold-war-era-bomb-shelter/263744/4 "2004-09-10T04:02:14Z")

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When I lived back home in New Jersey, a friend of mine had one in his cellar. It was a 10’x10’ room of concrete-filled cinderblock in his basement with what I call a “fold over” entrance (one wall, covered by another longer wall).

They used it mainly for storage of tools and whatnot. That was about it. I saw a similar picture of a design for it in my folks old 1963 _World Book_ (don’t ask, but it was an awesome source of Cold War information and U.S. propaganda).

Did anyone use it? I don’t know. That was years ago. The only time I needed to use a shelter was 9/11, but that was pre-built and in Kuwait.

Tripler  
But I **do** know there were multiple post Cold War shelters built in anticipation of “Y2K”.