In the days of duck’s egg - and - covering fire drills and atomic anxiety , many families bought space in bomb tax shelter , stocking and decorating their potential nuclear home base . Richard Ross ’s pic capture the forsake shelters and what some household planned to take to the apocalypse .
Ross ’s bookWaiting for the End of the Worldcontains photographs and accounts of bomb shelter from across America , Europe , and Asia . Below are photograph from just a few of those shelters : shelter in Sanpete and Salt Lake City , Utah , the Phillip Hoag and Charlie Hull Shelters in Emigrant , Montana , rock oil tycoon ’s Ling Chieh Kung ’s tax shelter in Conroe , Texas , and a public shelter near Zurich .
Picture Show : Waiting for the terminal of the World[GOOD Magazinevia Presurfer ]
Kitchen in shelter in Sanpete , Utah
Entrance to shelter in Sanpete , Utah
entrepot Shelves in Sanpete , Utah
entryway to shelter in Salt Lake City , Utah
Traverse tunnel in shelter in Salt Lake City , Utah
Entrance to Phillip Hoag Shelter in Emigrant , Montana
Communications tower for Phillip Hoag Shelter in Emigrant , Montana
entering to Kung ’s shelter in Conroe , Texas
Jail cells in Kung ’s tax shelter in Conroe , Texas
lock room in Kung ’s shelter in Conroe , Texas
Bedroom in Charlie Hull Shelter in Emigrant , Montana
Living way in Charlie Hull Shelter in Emigrant , Montana
Air filter in public shelter near Zurich , Switzerland
door to public shelter near Zurich , Switzerland
Personal building block in public shelter near Zurich , Switzerland
nuclear bomb
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