If you’ve ever been in downtown Vermilion you might have noticed the little fallout shelter sign sitting outside the mayor’s office at 5511 Liberty Ave. To some it’s amusing, to others disquieting and ...

The sign in front of the Los Angeles County Superior Court building downtown is one of thousands administered federally by the Office of Civil Defense. The first mention of this version of the public ...

A fallout shelter sign left over from the Cold War still visible in Brooklyn, New York. Caldwell Elementary School in McKinney, Texas, northeast of Dallas, looks like a typical 1940s-era brick school ...

Robert Blakeley, whose yellow-and-black fallout shelter sign became a grim symbol of the Cold War and, in many places across the country, a now-rusting reminder of the perils of nuclear brinkmanship, ...

During the Cold War, the federal government started a community fallout shelter program to help citizens build and stock small spaces meant for protection in the event of a nuclear attack. The new ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York City has quietly begun removing some of the corroding yellow nuclear fallout shelter signs that were appended to thousands of buildings in the 1960s, saying many are ...