To be prepared, he recommends that you have plenty of food and water in your home in case you have to stay there for awhile, and also to have a "go bag" ready in case of an emergency. Schlegelmilch said that in anticipation of any sort of catastrophic event, you need to have a plan beforehand. The fallout shelters from the past are now mostly used for storage or as laundry rooms.īut recent nuclear threats from North Korea has a lot of Americans asking what should you do if there was ever a nuclear attack? Schlegelmilch said, "In a nuclear situation, you are looking to either shelter in place for a long period of time to avoid fallout or having to evacuate quickly to avoid fallout." When the threat of imminent nuclear destruction subsided with the end of the Cold War, these shelters were repurposed for other functions. Within these concrete shelters were enough food supplies to support people for up to a few weeks. The nuclear fallout shelters were built to protect people who survived the blast from the subsequent radioactive debris. Preparation for a nuclear attack in the United States was at its height during the Kennedy Administration, at the peak of the Cold War.Īt that time there were about 18,000 fallout shelters scattered across New York City, that's according to Jeff Schlegelmilch, the Deputy Director of the National Center for Disaster Preparedness at Columbia University.Ĭlick here for map of marked fallout shelters in NYC. It's been decades since Americans have really thought about a nuclear attack.
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