* At 2: 00 pm EDT, all regular television and radio broadcasting in the United States halted as the airwaves were taken over by CONELRAD ( later the Emergency Broadcasting System ), and sirens sounded across the nation, and all people outside were directed to go to the nearest fallout shelter.

An outdoor, aboveground fallout shelter also may be built with concrete blocks.

Switzerland built an extensive network of fallout shelters, not only through extra hardening of government buildings such as schools, but also through a building regulation that ensured that all residential building built after 1968 contained a nuclear shelter able to withstand a blast from a 50 megaton explosion at a distance of 700 metres.

There was also the economic fallout on West Germany of the 1973 oil crisis, which almost seems to have been enough stress to finish off Brandt as the Chancellor.

A " Black Warning ," also for manual sirens, was either a Morse code ' D ' (— · ·) or three quick tones, indicating imminent danger of fallout.

The possible toxicity of any fallout may also be affected by the amount of black powder used, type of oxidizer, colors produced and launch method.

On the other hand, Beijing also understands keenly that a ' peaceful unification ' is in its best interests ; that the resulting fallout from any aggressive move to regain Taiwan will be great.

Subsequent interviews also suggested interpersonal and artistic differences, including managing the fallout of the Britpop / Different Class era.

Developed by the Soviet Union, the bomb was originally designed to have a yield of about, but the yield was reduced to 50 megatons to reduce nuclear fallout ( and also to prevent the blast from destroying the drop aircraft ).

It was also during this period that Lynch began to lose his grip on the party, the economy faltered in the aftermath of energy crises and the fallout from the giveaway concessions that had re-elected the government under Lynch, led to a succession race to succeed Lynch.

The Wall Street Crash of 1929, also known as the Great Crash and the Stock Market Crash of 1929, began in late October 1929 and was the most devastating stock market crash in the history of the United States when taking into consideration the full extent and duration of its fallout.

Display pyrotechnics, also known as commercial fireworks, are pyrotechnic devices intended for use outdoors, where the audience can be further away, and smoke and fallout is less of a concern.

After Zhao Ziyang was purged from the party leadership in 1989 during the fallout from the Tiananmen Square protests that same year, Li was initially also thought to have been removed from the leadership because he was a supporter of Zhao.

This is not only an issue in Poland, Belarus, Ukraine and Russia ; the fallout also reached western Europe, and until recently the German government discouraged people gathering certain mushrooms.

In the early 1960s, The Kennedy Administration worked with developer Louis Lesser to develop Barrington Plaza in Los Angeles, at the time the largest urban renewal project in the western United States, which also served as a nuclear fallout shelter during the peak of the Kennedy Administration's nuclear crisis.

Aside from this problem, the weapon also generated a large amount of radioactive nuclear fallout, more than had been anticipated, and a change in the weather pattern caused the fallout to be spread in a direction which had not been cleared in advance.

The ROC would also have detected radioactive fallout from the nuclear bursts and warned the public of approaching fallout.

The Courthouse also houses a fallout shelter underground.

That marriage also ended in divorce, fallout from the blacklisting upheaval.

As a fallout of that instance in February 2008, Hayden was charged for a code of conduct violation by Cricket Australia, for calling the Indian spinner Harbhajan Singh an obnoxious little weed, and for inviting Indian fast bowler Ishant Sharma for a boxing bout, during an interview aired on Brisbane radio station ; he was also heard to mimic Sharma's Indian accent in this exchange.

His pro-independence policy resulted in a compromise some see as having been imposed by the European Union and its newly named foreign policy chief Javier Solana, with the creation of the new State Union of Serbia and Montenegro ( replacing the two-republic Federal Republic of Yugoslavia ), but this also caused fallout with elements of his supporters who wanted him to push for full independence.

Since it is functionally just an underground bunker, storm cellars can also be used as improvised bomb shelters or fallout shelters ( although they are not usually dug as deeply or equipped with filtered ventilation ).

Powdered milk is also a common item in UN food aid supplies, fallout shelters, warehouses, and wherever fresh milk is not a viable option.

Today, this seems of minor importance but at the time few people comprehended the potentially limitless destruction nuclear weapons possess and the ongoing dangers posed by the fallout.

But the Castle Bravo accident of 1954, in which a thermonuclear weapon produced a large amount of fallout which was dispersed among human populations, suggested that this was not what was actually being used in modern thermonuclear weapons, which derive around half of their yield from a final fission stage.

For example, according to one anti-nuclear activist, Harvey Wasserman, the fallout caused " a plague of death and disease among the area's wild animals and farm livestock ", including a sharp fall in the reproductive rate of the region's horses and cows, reflected in statistics from Pennsylvania's Department of Agriculture, though the Department denies a link with TMI.

Geneforge 3 deals with the fallout of the previous games as the battle lines are drawn, and takes place among the Ashen Isles.

A fallout was inevitable between Cleaver and other Panther leaders after he publicly criticized the BPP, among other things accusing Panther social programs of being reformist rather than revolutionary.

While funding was given as a primary reason, others speculate that it was due to a fallout among the Worldwide Church of God ministry in the United Kingdom.

Many Americans — at least among the wealthier classes — built back-yard fallout shelters, which would provide little protection from a direct hit, but would keep out wind-blown fallout, for a few days or weeks ( Switzerland, which never acquired nuclear weapons, although it had the technological sophistication to do so long before Pakistan or North Korea, has built nuclear blast shelters that would protect most of its population from a nuclear war.

Despite a fallout in popularity among machine shops, cast iron remains the most popular material for surface masters ( different usage from a surface plate ) among laboratory metrologists, machine builders, gage makers, and other high-accuracy industries that have a requirement for gauging flatness.

Brady agreed that there had been “ tensions ” among the bishops over the fallout from the Murphy Report, “ but to describe them as ‘ divisions ’ is another matter.

Chandler spent much of his tenure dealing with the economic and social fallout from the strike and the killing, as the incidents gave the city a bad name among business and charitable interests for some years.

A family dwelling without a basement provides some natural shielding from fallout radiation.

Although many shelters still exist, some even being used as museums, virtually all fallout shelters have been decommissioned since the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991.

Radioactive fallout became less of an issue and the nuclear disarmament movement went into decline for some years.

Turkmenistan has announced plans to clean up some of the Aral Sea fallout with financial support from the World Bank.

While some proposed producing " clean " weapons, other theorists noted that one could make a nuclear weapon intentionally " dirty " by " salting " it with a material, which would generate large amounts of long-lasting fallout when irradiated by the weapon core.

One family and some friends try to run away in a sailboat, and the story describes their battles with nuclear winter and fallout, and with the ensuing collapse of civilization.

Although there are claims that participants in the Crossroads tests were well protected against radiation sickness, the Oscar-nominated documentary Radio Bikini showed footage of Navy sailors wearing little or no protection during their inspection of the target ships only hours after the explosions, even though some of the observer ships were caught in the fallout of the Baker explosion.

Political fallout arising from the interview was considerable and some days later, Collins sacked the entire RTÉ Authority as he felt that they disobeyed the controversial new law.

This was complemented in 1981 by two booklets regarding the construction of fallout shelters: Domestic Nuclear Shelters, with techniques for building a home shelter, and Domestic Nuclear Shelters-Technical Guidance, for the design and construction of long-term and permanent shelters, some of which involved elaborate designs.

An earlier event, the Toba eruption in Sumatra of about 73, 000 YBP, covered some parts of India with of ash, and must have coated the Nicobar Islands and Andaman Islands, much nearer in the ash fallout cone, with life-smothering layers, forcing the restart of their biodiversity from zero.

No cases of radiation sickness have ever been reported in Utah, due to the low level of fallout involved, although some cases of leukemia may have been associated with the tests.

Shortly after the announcement that the islands were safe, a group of the native people left their makeshift home to return to Bikini, but were evacuated ten years later after some developed radiation poisoning from Cesium-137, including thyroid cancer, ( some sources also state Strontium-90 ), a remnant of the radioactive fallout.

The Bad Writing Contest emerged in an intellectual climate dominated by fallout from the Sokal affair, in which the alleged opaqueness and obscurity of postmodern writing came in for criticism: Edward Said, for instance, deplored " diminishment and incoherence " in the writings of some of his colleagues and Martha Nussbaum condemned academic writing that was " ponderous and obscure.

Welles worked some of these preoccupations into the film: the film openly engages with the fallout of Fascism.

The particles contain mostly sea salts with some water ; these can have a cloud seeding effect causing local rainout and areas of high local fallout.

She has a fallout with her brother over his relationship with Isabel and, after some trouble, ends up buying Isabel's flat and starting a relationship with her former husband Andrés, trying by all means to get back at her brother.

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While the Marshall Islands testing comprised 14 % of all U. S. tests, it comprised nearly 80 % of the total yields of those detonated by the U. S., with an estimated total yield of around 210 megatons, with the largest being the 15 Mt Castle Bravo shot of 1954 which spread considerable nuclear fallout on many of the islands, including several which were inhabited, and some that had not been evacuated ..

At that time, Soviet research was not organized on a sufficiently high level, and useful results were not obtained, although radiochemical analyses of samples of fallout could have provided some useful information about the materials used to produce the explosion.

The British development of the Teller-Ulam design was apparently independent, though they were allowed to share in some U. S. fallout data which may have been useful to them.

They do briefly go outside to get some fresh air and rainwater, exposing themselves to a large amount of radioactive fallout.