They were prohibitively expensive, it was impossible to know whether they’d be located in the right places until it was too late, and even if they were well placed there wouldn’t be enough time for a substantial number of people to get inside in time. In 1957, the group known as the Gaither Committee issued a report to President Eisenhower enumerating the many problems with a safety program that focused on such shelters. Though the backyard bunker lives on in the American imagination, in reality its heyday was brief.Īs TIME has previously reported, it was already clear in the 1950s that people who found themselves near ground zero in a nuclear attack could probably not be much helped by the kinds of structures that might be designed to protect large groups of people in cities.
But one of the most stereotypical such symbols of the nuclear age has largely been abandoned as a safety tactic.
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