EAST POINT, Ga. — There’s no reason to believe the US will get directly involved in the Ukraine conflict, but a lot of people have been thinking back to the cold war when fallout shelters became ...

Bethesda Reader Dorothy Weinstein recently came across a 24-page U.S. civil defense pamphlet her parents, Harold and Adele Lehrman, received in 1967. It instructed them how to turn part of the ...

Dan Kaplan stands near an iron door that marks the entrance to the Cold War-era fallout shelter in his Kensington, Md., home. These days, the room is more suitable for keeping wine at the proper ...

Sixty years ago, America teetered on the brink of war. Crises in Berlin and Cuba threatened all. People feared Russian missiles were coming — and took steps to hunker down for a nuclear attack.

For sale: Classic mid-century ranch home on private street. Features: five bedrooms, four bathrooms, two floor-to-ceiling fireplaces and basement fallout shelter complete with 500-gallon water tanks ...

While survivalist bunkers are back in the news these days, they are but the latest iteration of the old residential fallout shelters people had built in their backyards. We visit a surviving one in ...

At first glance it looks like a comfortable, simply but attractively furnished basement or lounge room — this 10- by 15-foot area in the basement of the Lewis Schoening residence on Center Street.