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Definition of Fallout shelter
1. Noun. A shelter to protect occupants from the fallout from an atomic bomb.
Definition of Fallout shelter
1. Noun. A thick-walled building, usually under the ground, built so that people can keep away from dust after a nuclear explosion. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fallout Shelter
Literary usage of Fallout shelter
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. In Time of Emergency: A Citizen's Handbook by DIANE Publishing Company (1995)
"A fallout shelter does not need to be a special type of building or underground
bunker. ... (A fallout shelter should not be confused with a blast shelter. ..."
2. Space Gate: The Veil Removed by Gyeorgos Ceres Hatonn (1993)
"Mount Weather became the nation's biggest and best fallout shelter, though its
existence was not “officially” acknowledged until 1974, when a TWA jet ..."
3. Statistical Abstract of the United States by United States. Bureau of the Census, United States Dept. of the Treasury. Bureau of Statistics, United States Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce (1879)
"Facility owner has signed fallout shelter license which permits use of facility
as a public shelter. ... Official fallout shelter signs posted on facility. ..."
4. The Medical Implications of Nuclear War by Frederic Solomon (1986)
"... to use "pattern attacks" on the bomber bases, and to adopt a more realistic
fallout shelter posture (US Congress, Office of Technology Assessment, 1975; ..."
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