Despite the world’s continued persistent existence, there seems to be a constant feeling of pervasive doom throughout humanity’s history. Whether it comes from Haley’s Comet or Mutually Assured Destruction or drug induced zombies, we all have to strong desire to plan for surviving the calamity at hand and for ways to get by in the land beyond the world’s end. Maybe this yearning to plan for terrors that may never come is some sort of existential statement on the fleeting nature of life, but one thing is for sure, it has resulted in some technological fads that seem to have come and gone. One such creation was that of the backyard fallout shelter, which would keep you safe from ‘The Bomb’ and its effects.

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