And, advances in food preservation since the end of the war meant that stocking an adequate reserve of food and supplies was easily doable.
as the government had been pushing the benefits of canning during WWII. Planning for a shortage of food was not news to the U.S. Only 1 year later the 13-day stand-off of Bay of Pigs ordeal sent the nation into a tail spin. During this time President Kennedy gave speeches and went on record in LIFE magazine urging citizens to prepare fallout shelters if they were able to do so and promising that public shelters would be in the works. Via/ Wiki Commons History of PreparednessĪfter tensions with Russia magnified during the Berlin Crisis in 1961. For nearly 2 weeks the world was gripped by the threat of nuclear war, adding a new urgency for many families to build and stock fallout shelters in case the worst actually happened. If you were old enough to watch TV or read newspapers in 1962 then you undoubtedly remember the turmoil of the Bay of Pigs crisis.
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