Enclosed space designated to protect occupants from radioactive debris from a nuclear explosion
For the 2015 video game, see Fallout Shelter. For the Island Records studio known as The Fallout Shelter, see 22 St Peter's Square.
A fallout shelter sign in the United States of America, designed in 1961 by United States Army Corps of Engineers director of administrative logistics support function Robert W. BlakeleyIdealized American fallout shelter, around 1957
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A fallout shelter is an enclosed space specially designated to protect occupants from radioactive debris or fallout resulting from a nuclear explosion. Many such shelters were constructed as civil defense measures during the Cold War.
During a nuclear explosion, matter vaporized in the resulting fireball is exposed to neutrons from the explosion, absorbs them, and becomes radioactive. When this material condenses in the rain, it forms dust and light sandy materials that resemble ground pumice. The fallout emits alpha and beta particles, as well as gamma rays.
Much of this highly radioactive material falls to Earth, subjecting anything within the line of sight to radiation, becoming a significant hazard. A fallout shelter is designed to allow its occupants to minimize exposure to harmful fallout until radioactivity has decayed to a safer level, over a few weeks or months.
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series Westworld, alleging that the game is a "blatant rip-off" of FalloutShelter, another mobile game, co-developed by Behaviour. In a suit filed in...
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