Documents "Nuclear Shelters and Moral Convictions: An Investigation into Princeton’s Debate over Nuclear Fallout Shelters in the Early 1960s" by Margaret Murphy This paper, "Nuclear Shelters and Moral Convictions: An Investigation into Princeton’s Debate over Nuclear Fallout Shelters in the Early 1960s," was written by Princeton undergraduate Margaret Murphy for Professor… 45 Buildings Are Designated And Stocked as Fallout Shelters This article in the October 2, 1963 issue of The Princeton Herald describes the announcement by Captain Geoffrey Sage, Princeton civil defense and disaster control director, of the completion of 45 nuclear fallout shelters across the Princeton Campus and into the larger Princeton community. They are stocked with federally-funded… Letters Stir Conflict On Shelter Program This article, from the February 12, 1962 issue of the Daily Princetonian, discusses the conflict and tension over whether or not Princeton should construct nuclear fallout shelters. The topic of fallout shelters seems to be of great discussion on campus. One Princeton professor remarked, “This is all you ever hear in the faculty… Missing Fallout Shelters This letter to the Chairman from Ronald Mann ‘76 in the January 12, 1973 issue of the Daily Princetonian questions the University's disaster procedures in the case of a nuclear attack. He states that on every dormitory door is the sign with the message: "Fallout may take one half hour or more to drift to Princeton from… Princeton Graduate Student Designs a Nuclear Fallout Shelter A Princeton Architecture graduate student, Marc Hacker, designed a massive fallout shelter for his master’s thesis. The shelter was designed for the residents of Coyote Springs, NV - 50 miles from Las Vegas. The US government planned to construct a huge MX missile complex in Coyote Springs, which would likely be a target in a… Project Hideaway Project Hideaway was a research project conducted by Professor Jack A. Vernon in the Department of Psychology at Princeton University. The report from the study, Project Hideaway: A Pilot Feasibility Study of Fallout Shelters for Families, was published in December 1959 and was prepared under a research contract with Princeton University… Shelter Proposals Ready for Goheen This article from the February 6, 1962 issue of the Daily Princetonian discusses a preliminary report from The advisory committee on fallout shelters convened by Princeton President Goheen. This report outlined buildings across campus and at the Forrestal Research Center which could serve as possible fallout shelters. The report… Shelter Space Open to All; Faculty Convictions Vary This article, from the February 13, 1962 issue of the Daily Princetonian, discusses questions about who Princeton nuclear fallout shelters should be available for. Some argued that the shelters should only be for Princeton students and faculty while others call for them to be open to the surrounding community. Princeton President… Wigner Seeks Bomb Shelters Beneath Cities Princeton Professor and Nobel Prize-winning physicist Eugene Wigner is calling for networks of underground tunnel bomb shelters to be constructed for the US’s largest cities. Wigner envisions a maze of tunnels five feet below ground that are eight feet in diameter. He sees this system as the most effective and feasible solution to…
