For more travel coverage from the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond “There was no standard design for a fallout shelter, so they conducted this experiment,” said Dublin historian Steven Minniear, president of the Dublin Historical Preservation Association, who is writing a book about the city’s history and the mysterious Naval Radiological Defense Laboratory that operated on old Camp Parks land. Off in the foothills of Dublin, the men, wearing vests with their identification numbers, were placed into a large, half-cylinder-shaped room, 25-feet-wide and 48-feet-long, with open toilets, air conditioning, and shuffleboard, cards and checkers to pass the time. In 1959, as Fidel Castro took power in Cuba and the Cold War raged, 92 Alameda County jail inmates and eight sheriff’s deputies, doctors and scientists were selected as part of an experiment to determine how human beings could endure underground for long periods of time in the event of nuclear war.
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