Bomb Shelter Opened After 50 Years

[icyfroth]

WHEN Craig Denham purchased his Texas home, the previous owners shared some intriguing information: "There's a basement in the back, a shelter".

Curious, he headed down the steep stairs set in limestone at the back of his new home. Venturing into the darkness, he discovered an astounding time capsule which had been sealed from the outside world for 50 years - aside from one quick opening by the previous owners.

With a single light bulb, a shabby looking toilet behind a shower curtain, an escape map pinned to the wall and a periscope "perfect for the zombie apocalypse", the fallout shelter is from the height of the Atomic Age

In the midst of the Cold War, fallout shelters were built to protect occupants from radioactive debris after a nuclear explosion.

This enclosure was built originally by a retired air force colonel, E.V. Robnett Jr., who was also an inventor and died in 1984.

Mr Denham believed the colonel had access to information the public didn't.

The fact he built a shelter in his backyard shows "there must have been real concern with people's safety" during the time, Mr Denham said.

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[spotweldersfriend]

A safe place for a doobie:-) 50 years eh? And in Texas.Lee Harvey Oswalds bedsit?

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every family lost members in the war and population was in no way in mood for more

When was that ever a concern to those in power?

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@spotweldersfriend wrote:
A safe place for a doobie:-) 50 years eh? And in Texas.Lee Harvey Oswalds bedsit?

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what contrast with his minsk residence.......

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@**meep** wrote:

every family lost members in the war and population was in no way in mood for more

When was that ever a concern to those in power?

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True, but you can only push people so far.  USA lost many men in the war, but their country was not bombed, their industry and infrastructure was intact; when the surviving men returned home, their kids, wives, parents, houses all was there as before.  Russian soldiers returned often to find that their families were dead, villages totally gone, whole cities flattened; people were homeless and starving.  The USSR had no means to attack anybody and not really reason to, they needed all their power to rebuild their agriculture and infrastructure. 

America on the other hand was terrified that if the socialism in Russia or elsewhere looks to work that American workers might like bit of a revolution too.  Why do you think they supported every nasty dictator in South America over the years, and why they still now continue the embargo on Cuba? 

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@***super_nova*** wrote:

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@**meep** wrote:

every family lost members in the war and population was in no way in mood for more

When was that ever a concern to those in power?

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True, but you can only push people so far.  USA lost many men in the war, but their country was not bombed, their industry and infrastructure was intact; when the surviving men returned home, their kids, wives, parents, houses all was there as before.  Russian soldiers returned often to find that their families were dead, villages totally gone, whole cities flattened; people were homeless and starving.  The USSR had no means to attack anybody and not really reason to, they needed all their power to rebuild their agriculture and infrastructure. 

America on the other hand was terrified that if the socialism in Russia or elsewhere looks to work that American workers might like bit of a revolution too.  Why do you think they supported every nasty dictator in South America over the years, and why they still now continue the embargo on Cuba? 

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Pushing people too far was not a concern for Stalin.   Power was.

How much do you think Sputnik 1 cost them and where did the money come from?

[monman12]

SN,  a lot (most) of what you write is nonsense.

When the Russians retreated as a result of Hitler's Operation Barbarossa, they deliberately adopted a scorched  earth policy to deny the Germans any shelter/ /food/ support etc.

Starting in 1941 Stalin moved Soviet armament and  other heavy industries  past the Ural Mountains into Ural  where they were free from German attack during the war,  and were in full production after WWII.

"During World War II, Chelyabinsk was one of the Soviet Union’s major armament production centers. Entire factories on the western side of the Urals were taken apart and reconstructed on the other side of the Urals. After WWII Chelyabinsk became a major nuclear weapons development area."

In 1992  western scientists who were finally allowed to study the region, declared Chelyabinsk to be the most polluted spot on earth.

USA exploded its first the H-bomb in 1952 the USSR in 1953

 By 1981, USA had 8,000 ICBM’s and USSR 7,000 ICBM’s

Initially, during the Cold War,  the US had  a much greater numerical superiority in nuclear weapons, and delivery systems, however the MAD doctrine prevailed so that numerical superiority was largely irrelevant.

nɥºɾ

[**meep**]

Also, do some research on Atomgrads (Closed Cities)

[serendipityricho]

LL-spotted the radio straight away--dont want the campbells cans

-just the radio................................Richo.

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The interesting difference that I found between Russians/people from eastern block, and people from western countries is that the East Europeans know that what they were told is not always the truth, while people here will not even consider that the history they are told could be a spin. 

One of the most glaring examples is that Soviet involvement in Afghanistan is still referred to as an "invasion".  The fact is that Russian troops were sent there on the request of the Afghan government who were fighting radical Islamists - forefathers of Taliban.  Russians did not go there to invade the country, they went there to help stop people who objected to the elected secular government.

Back to post war USSR; yes, that is true that the Russians have loaded machinery on trains and moved them, as well as whatever else could be moved, I am sure they also destroyed some infrastructure rather than allowing it help the advancing Germans, but the result is still the same = devastated country, homeless people and some 20 - 30 million dead.  It is not much point to speculate if Stalin would have liked to be the master of the universe, he just did not have the means to fight with USA, he did not need more space, he had massive problem just keeping his people fed and housed, anyway, he was dead by 1953. 

I was also always amazed that people here & USA did not realise how they were brainwashed into being scared of certain nationalities;  I recall when even the cartoons had every villain called Natasha and speaking in Russian accent, Asian people were always sneaky and not to be trusted etc.  Only old haggard and overweight Russian women were ever shown on TV. 

[***super_nova***]

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Pushing people too far was not a concern for Stalin.   Power was.

How much do you think Sputnik 1 cost them and where did the money come from?

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But was it because the power made them feel safe or because they wanted to take on US in an unwinable war?