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Bomb Shelter

Coal mines as bomb shelters? – A terrible Cold War idea from the Coal Region

Posted on November 2, 2017May 2, 2019 by Jake Wynn

As the Cold War heated up in the winter of 1951, the citizens of Hazleton, Pennsylvania had a radical idea to save themselves from nuclear war.

Posted in Coal RegionTagged anthracite, Anthracite coal, Atomic, Atomic Bomb, Bomb Shelter, Coal Region, Cold War, Featured, Hazleton, Newspaper, Nuclear, World War III1 Comment

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