/internal/media/dispatcher/52571/fullLIFE Magazine dated January 12, 196201/12/196213 11/16 × 10 9/16 × 3/16 in. (34.8 × 26.8 × 0.5 cm)Paper, MetalThe Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza Collection2000.044.00010LIFE Magazine from January 12, 1962 discussing the increase in fallout shelters due to the possibility of nuclear war from the Soviet Union and Cuba. This issue is Vol. 52, No. 2. Magazine has 118 pages.
Front cover has full-color illustration of a community fallout shelter in an urban metropolitan area. Title of magazine is printed in large white letters set within a rectangular red box against a broad black band across the top of the issue. Text printed in white within black band are the following feature articles:
"New Facts You Must Know
about Fallout
The Drive For
Mass Shelters"; printed near lower right corner in illustration is the following text:
"Cutaway Plan of
Community Shelter
under Bridge". The date of publication and cost of the magazine (20 cents) are printed in white in lower right corner.
Three rusted metal staples hold pages of magazine together along creased spine.
Address label adhered upside down in lower left front cover on magazine.
Magazine is in good condition. Minimal color loss on front. Lower right front corner has many creases, color loss, and small folds. (JM 08/08/2018)Newspapers & Magazines6622226.828803657634.766319532620643Magazine0.4762509525LIFE Magazine from January 12, 1962, discussing the increase in fallout shelters due to the possibility of nuclear war with the Soviet Union and Cuba. This issue is Vol. 52, No. 2, and has 118 pages.
The front cover is illustrated to show a community fallout shelter in an urban metropolitan area.
Text on the cover highlights articles titled "New Facts You Must Know about Fallout" and "The Drive For Mass Shelters". In the lower right corner of the cover is a caption: "Cutaway Plan of Community Shelter under Bridge".
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Cold WarFallout shelterNuclear threatRussiaCubaMagazinesCuban Missile CrisisKhrushchev, NikitaCastro, FidelKennedy, John F.LIFE MagazineNew YorkThis Life magazine from January 1962 provides a fascinating perspective on how individuals viewed fallout shelters at this time. A number of "ordinary citizens" were asked about shelters, and most of the featured quotes are critical. A cab driver said, "If I can't survive in my own basement, the hell with it." A barber offered, "Shelters are just something they're pushing...someone's going to end up with a lot of money." A bank teller put it simply, "We'd die in those shelters. Our best chance is to work for peace, put all our efforts toward it." - Stephen Fagin, Curator