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...half of the year. If one estimates the probability of a nuclear war in the next five years at one-tenth, the probability that such a war will be of the no-cities type at one-tenth the probability that a shelter will protect against the level of fallout and others effects at one-third, and the probability that post-attack survival is possible at one-fifth, then the probability that shelters will save lives in the next five years is merely one 1500. Naturally this value is strictly arbitrary, but it helps to illustrate the fact that...
...above chart indicates the radius (in miles) of the area of 100% mortality, with or without fallout shelters. For example, if a 10 megaton bomb burst over the Harvard Yard, Concord would be within the area completely destroyed...
...metropolitan areas in the United States contain 60.8 million persons, and thus the Soviet Union can threaten immediate destruction for at least a third of the American people. This is a minimal estimate and leaves out over two-thirds of the Soviet striking force and post-attack deaths from fallout, starvation, disease and other factors...
Harvard began to show its interest in the problem when Charles A. Coolidge '17, Acting President while President Pusey was touring the Orient, appointed a Faculty committee to examine the possibility of protecting the University from fallout. The committee began meeting in November, 1961, and issued a report of its recommendations last March. While the possibility of erecting blast shelters was rejected, a "modest" fallout program seemed worthwhile. John C. Colburn, an architect in the Buildings and Grounds Department, conducted a survey which seemed to indicate that shelter could be found in present basements for the University...
...making and stocking the areas can begin. But according to Edmund Burke, Cambridge Civil defense Co-ordinator, the forms "are coming in awfully slowly." To date, the only fully public shelter is at the Carfasner Co., 31 Ames Street. With luck and time Cambridge may be able to provide fallout protection or one quarter to one half of its populace...