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Last week New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller became the first elected official in the U.S. to come out for a compulsory statewide fallout-shelter program. Defying warnings that he was dealing with political poison. Rockefeller announced that he would urge the state legislature at its next session to back up the recommendations of his Special Task Force on Protection from Radioactive Fallout...
...campaign to tell New York's 16,000,000 citizens about fallout dangers and what can be done about them...
Critical Fortnight. The New York task force, made up of nine high state officials under the chairmanship of Manhattan Lawyer Oscar M. Ruebhausen, based its recommendations on two fundamental facts: 1) in a nuclear attack upon U.S. cities, fallout radiation, the "silent killer," could cause three or four times as many deaths as the blast and heat from exploding nuclear warheads; 2) inexpensive fallout shelters would provide a "very high degree of protection" against fallout radiation. "Although thermonuclear war would be a major disaster," said the task-force report, "the magnitude of the disaster can be markedly limited by protective...
Better Deterrent. What any serious fallout-shelter program is up against was evident in the jeering reception that the task force's report got from much of New York's press. "Ridiculous," cried Long Island's Newsday. "Smells of defeatism," muttered the New York Daily News. In rare agreement, the Wall Street Journal and the Fair Dealish New York Post cried that deterrent power, not shelters, is the only safeguard against nuclear attack...
...still, hot, muggy Saturday night in New York, the kind of night that drives families out of their apartment houses and homes into the streets and parks, onto their tenement fire escapes, and into their autos for long, aimless cruises along the webwork of the city's highways-the kind of sense-dulling night that makes people hope for something to happen to take their minds off the weather's oppression...