The fallout symbol was created during the early nuclear age. Scientists needed a universal warning for radiation. The design had to be simple and unmistakable. Early versions varied before ...

Robert Blakeley, whose yellow-and-black fallout shelter sign became a grim symbol of the Cold War and, in many places across the country, a now-rusting reminder of the perils of nuclear brinkmanship, ...

From the Cold War vantage point of the early 1960s, the immediate future appeared to be one of impending nuclear annihilation. The savvy homeowner built a bomb shelter for family safety, but how to ...