My House as a Teenager Had a Fallout Shelter

[2na fisherman]

22. Not Just One Threat

Today's world is filled with new weapons of annihilation never considered during the 50's. Not even the billion dollar bunkers of the current elites will spare them from the omnicidal effects of 50 megaton nukes or fatal rays of the neutron bomb. Plus it's easy to imagine how a recombinant DNA pathogen may be engineered to unleash a new pandemic bug with a100% lethality and no cure. And persistent weaponized chemical nerve agents may be used to make large areas uninhabitable by causing instant mass casualties upon contact with a pinhead drop. And climate science tells us that our environment may be turned into a freezing wasteland with other effects not easily withstood even by modern "preppers" who could not foresee the magnitude of simultaneous destructive forces unleashed. So those bomb shelters of the 50's do seem hopelessly naive when faced with the real possibility of human extinction events triggered by such tools used in this "unthinkable" total war scenario.
There are no contingency plans to save us. Forget about FEMA. CD stands for certain death, not Civil Defense. And don't get me started on those who actually want this to happen to fulfill some misguided religious prophecy. Strange times, indeed.