Word: blastproof
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...billion, the U.S. has covered the sandy bulge of the waist of Florida with an architectural fantasy that began with the now familiar pattern of old Cape Kennedy proper: the bending, baking shoreline, the line of steel launching towers covered with red, rustproofing paint, the overgrown concrete igloos, blastproof behind 2-ft.-thick steel doors...
Beyond the Church. Daly's father founded the firm 50 years ago to specialize in church architecture, but under Leo Jr. it was moved far afield since World War II. About half of its work is designing such military projects as blastproof silos for Titan missiles DEW-line facilities in the Arctic and the big SAC underground command post near Omaha. Dalys also designed Boeing's big computer center in Seattlen and a $4,700,000 physics lab at Argonne National Laboratory in Lemont, Til. Daly's 300-man staff is now working on 60 projects worth...
Last week came new evidence suggesting that Gourè had been right all along. Pictures at an antiaircraft defense exhibition in Moscow showed what many observers had previously missed: air vents, escape tunnels and blastproof steel doors in the basements of apartment houses and public buildings (although reporters have not actually seen such protective devices on the newest buildings going up in Moscow). A film revealed how stations on the Moscow subway can be quickly converted into bomb shelters by closing them off from the tunnel by means of massive steel doors lifted into place with hydraulic jacks. Another movie...
Documentary Evidence. Gouré also spotted what he thinks are signs of retractable, blastproof doors to station entrances of the 43-mile-long Moscow subway, whose circular, concrete tunnels could house one million people-20% of the city's population. (Leningrad has about eight miles of subway, and the first stage of the Kiev subway has six miles of track.) But mostly, Gouré's evidence for a thoroughly planned Russian civil defense effort is the torrent of pamphlets, charts and decrees issued to the public through DOSAAF (All-Union Voluntary Society for the Promotion of the Army...
...state level, the situation is worse. Only three states* have complete, blastproof underground installations where business can be carried on in relative safety. Just three others are under construction, including Governor Nelson Rockefeller's model bunker in Albany, which can house 1,100 legislators and public employees, and sustain them with 14,000 special crackers that provide a complete, balanced diet...