
Those are likely widely shared sentiments in uber-liberal Seattle, which overwhelming voted for Hillary Clinton in 2016. impulsive, poorly educated and dishonest.” officials claim that Seattle is also within striking distance of Kim’s missiles.īut Kim’s saber rattling is no less worrisome than Trump’s responses, said McCaffrey, who moved to Seattle seven years ago to be with family and is regularly shown on MSNBC with a view of the Space Needle. Barry McCaffrey, says such a nuke exchange, though unlikely, is on the city’s mind after hearing U.S. One of Milner’s fellow Seattleites, TV commenter and retired four-star Gen. If North Korea does send its missiles (as it also threatened to do last year and in 2013 before standing down), Trump says its leader Kim Jong Un will regret it. Overall, an estimated 150 home fallout shelters were built in Indianapolis at that time.įortunately, the shelters were never used, although some were converted into storage areas or safe places to go during tornadoes.Ĭall IndyStar producer Dawn Mitchell at (317) 444-6497.Who’s to say what two of Bangor’s subs are up to, but they are forward-deployed in Guam, from where they operate during much of the year. When the community shelters were favored, the home shelter movement evaporated, leaving Marbaugh $15,000 in the hole and overstocked with canned goods and radiation kits. He quit his sewer construction business to manufacture home shelters.

In 1971, The Star interviewed Indianapolis businessman James Marbaugh, who built at least two dozen shelters in the city, including one for himself. To lighten the tension, Indianapolis even crowned a “Miss Fallout Shelter.” There were at least 200 community fallout shelters throughout Marion County. Other shelters were located in the sub-basement of the City-County Building, the Statehouse, the old Indiana Bell Telephone building, the old Federal Building, the World War Memorial, churches, schools and the basement of The Indianapolis Star building. Harold Handley approved plans for an atomic fallout shelter to accommodate 6,000 people in the new State Office Building complex. The Community Fallout Shelter Program began in September 1961. Kennedy later altered his stance on home shelters and instead encouraged community fallout shelters.
