How To Build A Fallout Shelter

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    There were several possible private shelter designs to build both underground and overground in such areas as the basement or your backyard.
    Instructional manuals and Tv shows demonstrated to the american public how to build them as a do it yourself project.
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    Credit:
    Created by Daniel Turner
    Narrator:
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    The Family fallout shelter
    by the United States. Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization (1959)
    One Nation Underground: The Fallout Shelter in American Culture
    By Kenneth D. Rose
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  • @Simplehistory
    @Simplehistory  5 років тому +2306

    Some people prepared for a nuclear attack from the USSR, which would never come. A lot of these shelters are being discovered in people's backyards today..

  • @mailmanmaksim751
    @mailmanmaksim751 5 років тому +1777

    honestly i really want this to be a real tutorial

    • @Simplehistory
      @Simplehistory  5 років тому +305

      Check out 'The Family fallout shelter
      by the United States. Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization (1959)' theres a pdf online of it which instructs you how to build one :D

    • @mailmanmaksim751
      @mailmanmaksim751 5 років тому +121

      @@Simplehistory Who knew a youtube channel would save me from the third world war that shouldnt happen, Thanks Guys ;D

    • @dr.snowman4883
      @dr.snowman4883 5 років тому +16

      @Prussian Eagle they got vault-tec?

    • @cjsstuff8483
      @cjsstuff8483 5 років тому +4

      I've heard that in the USSR is making over 5 atom bombs

    • @cjsstuff8483
      @cjsstuff8483 5 років тому +1

      Used too, I forget to add that in

  • @ramadhani201
    @ramadhani201 5 років тому +3471

    Vault Boy wants to :
    *Know your location*

    • @kirillassasin
      @kirillassasin 5 років тому +93

      Communist boi wants to know our location

    • @Lucas-gu1ui
      @Lucas-gu1ui 5 років тому +7

      Ew

    • @Snailybob
      @Snailybob 5 років тому +57

      @@kirillassasin death is a preferable alternative to communism

    • @poweroffriendship2.0
      @poweroffriendship2.0 5 років тому +7

      Hey! That's my comment!

    • @flavouredsocks2822
      @flavouredsocks2822 5 років тому +30

      The lone wanderer would like to know your location

  • @cadenhong6104
    @cadenhong6104 5 років тому +575

    Shelter: Has right angle door
    Radiation: Let me in let me innnnn!

  • @louannchipman1749
    @louannchipman1749 10 місяців тому +14

    My Dee built a fallout shelter in our first home. It was a legit fallout shelter, built to specifications and was completely underground, accessible from the existing basement by a small hallway (with a turn). It also had an air access. He was serious about protecting his family. Not only that, but my first job at First Federal in Winston-Salem had a legit fallout shelter that was pretty much like a tomb/vault. It definitely seemed bomb-proof with all the reinforcements - I figure it was for the adjacent area and not just the bank! When Dee built our second home, it contained a provision for a fallout shelter, of sorts, but wasn't as elaborate as the first one, which was built in the 1950's.

  • @petarcukic6264
    @petarcukic6264 5 років тому +270

    2:40 Did anyone notice the cat painting from Fallout 4?

    • @filbert541
      @filbert541 5 років тому +5

      Wow yeah that painting

    • @seniorkopatich3189
      @seniorkopatich3189 5 років тому +3

      I knew I wasn't the only one who noticed it!

    • @erzio8733
      @erzio8733 5 років тому

      So..
      What do you mean About that?

    • @Theakritas_
      @Theakritas_ 5 років тому +1

      I thought i was the only one that noticed...

    • @boomboone47
      @boomboone47 5 років тому

      The Choox, YES!!!!! Finally another person and now I see the other comments

  • @vietoo5056
    @vietoo5056 5 років тому +467

    Yesterday : RDR 2 reference
    Now : Fallout 76
    GG Simple History

    • @damianmontoya6414
      @damianmontoya6414 5 років тому +7

      InkPotion IncSac hopefully Vault-Tech didn’t make the prefabricated shelters

    • @halcyon9686
      @halcyon9686 5 років тому +2

      @@damianmontoya6414 What do you mean?

    • @Theakritas_
      @Theakritas_ 5 років тому +2

      Oh no, it's VAULT TEC!

    • @masonsilvers6789
      @masonsilvers6789 5 років тому +1

      @@halcyon9686 :D i love fallout!

  • @enderdrone6432
    @enderdrone6432 5 років тому +1511

    Preston: A settlement needs your help, I’ll mark it in your map

  • @black_grey_white9813
    @black_grey_white9813 5 років тому +705

    Sponsered by Vault-tec

    • @aidenwestcott6895
      @aidenwestcott6895 4 роки тому +8

      @Unexplainable Content To vault 81 (or any other vault that didn't test the dwellers)

    • @ethanhockley3136
      @ethanhockley3136 4 роки тому +3

      @@aidenwestcott6895 the overseer stopped the experiments before they started

    • @slimeking2056
      @slimeking2056 4 роки тому

      @@ethanhockley3136 IDK

    • @actuallycantdoanything8179
      @actuallycantdoanything8179 3 роки тому

      Why get this recommended in 2020

    • @antoninonigrelli661
      @antoninonigrelli661 3 роки тому +1

      @@actuallycantdoanything8179 cuzzzzz there gonna be nuclearr warrrrrrrrrr

  • @warhammernerd52Daxx-Lorenzo898
    @warhammernerd52Daxx-Lorenzo898 5 років тому +497

    *The Master wants to know your Vault designation*

    • @Giggysiggy
      @Giggysiggy 5 років тому +2

      warhammernerd52 jimmy little jimmy is that you

    • @user-uo6fu2ff2f
      @user-uo6fu2ff2f 4 роки тому +2

      Wait... you no ghoul,Lou said only let vhouls in,take normals to Lou.... wait!

    • @NCR_Ranger_7718
      @NCR_Ranger_7718 4 роки тому +1

      The NCR wants to know your location

    • @theshockerpit7274
      @theshockerpit7274 4 роки тому +1

      warhammernerd52 No not the master

    • @virtual8366
      @virtual8366 4 роки тому

      Gig Bi

  • @molotov8328
    @molotov8328 5 років тому +351

    0:21 this dude using cheat codes

    • @bradyjordan4639
      @bradyjordan4639 5 років тому +30

      *in console* spawn list-item 78* OH CRAP I WANTED FOOD NOT A BRICK HOUSE IN MY BUNKER

    • @illusions8946
      @illusions8946 5 років тому

      He typed "operation cwal" to build that fast

    • @potassiumcyanide3857
      @potassiumcyanide3857 5 років тому

      Warpten

  • @ihavetowait90daystochangem67
    @ihavetowait90daystochangem67 5 років тому +2970

    Lmao just build obsidian around it

  • @nate3513
    @nate3513 5 років тому +374

    “In the 1960s, the Cold War was heating up” irony. Just irony.

  • @CrusaderTheFirst
    @CrusaderTheFirst 5 років тому +321

    I can imagine an episode of simple history on april fools day talking about the battle of anchorage in fallout. Make it so!

  • @thewizard7780
    @thewizard7780 3 роки тому +56

    Honestly I wanna build one of these
    not because I'm afraid of imminent nuclear attacks
    but because it's so cool to just have a fallout shelter in my back yard

    • @xeanderman6688
      @xeanderman6688 Рік тому +3

      And you can hide there when somebody is annoying

    • @kursk_kuku141
      @kursk_kuku141 Рік тому +2

      Same, but inside is Fallout theme/museum.

  • @cptjackpl8690
    @cptjackpl8690 5 років тому +436

    Another shelter needs your help, I'll mark it on your map.

  • @mon1ka502
    @mon1ka502 5 років тому +496

    Fallout fan: **Heavy breathing**

  • @roadroller8851
    @roadroller8851 5 років тому +165

    Just stock up on some *Caps* and spawn a Living Quarters lmao.

    • @jblockman_59nunyabidnis68
      @jblockman_59nunyabidnis68 5 років тому +1

      @Provocateur hey we dropped panflits in ther native tongue telling them we were going to bomb the city both times.

    • @lichtishlogistics
      @lichtishlogistics 5 років тому

      @Provocateur You have no reason to comment that under a comment that has nothing to do with your point.

    • @Joemamagaming36
      @Joemamagaming36 4 роки тому

      Tell you what I'll send raiders into ur vault

    • @Nubsogggers
      @Nubsogggers 4 місяці тому

      No no no, you can't just get some caps! That's unrealistic!
      Get about 2,000 metal bottle caps, an M4A1 (Or other legal firearm), some generators and lastly, an full, upgraded X-01 Powered armor suit! Then you'll be good!

  • @phantomaviator1318
    @phantomaviator1318 5 років тому +495

    Step 1:
    Step 2: Lay some brick
    Step 3: make it 20 feet or more underground
    Step 4: paint it or line it with lead
    Step 5: *Build a large water tank and food pantry connected to the shelter with a door, and fill it with enough supplies to last 5 years*
    Step 6: *Cooling fans*
    Step 7: be sure to obtain possible forms of currency, such as fresh water, paper money, or other items
    Step 8: *high quality air and water filters*
    Step 9: gather 3 rifles, 2 shotguns, 5 pistols, and 2 sniper rifles. (Possible 2 machine guns if enough people/experience)
    Step 10: Air circulation
    Step 11: kitchen, restrooms, and at least 2 bedrooms that can hold 4 people each
    (Optional) Step 12: The "fun" room... Hehehe
    Step 13: an alternative entrance that can be used to access the shelter within 2 minutes, and an exit that can be used to exit within 5 minutes.
    Step 14: 3 to 10 or more fallout suits
    Step 15: game room
    Step 16: ???
    Step 17: Profit.

    • @phantomaviator1318
      @phantomaviator1318 5 років тому +46

      Or you can also...
      *Rolling stones starts playing *
      *PAINT IT PAINT IT PAINT IT PAINT IT BLACK*

    • @TheAttacker732
      @TheAttacker732 5 років тому +19

      20 feet underground in addition to the bricks & concrete will do a solid job with regards to the radiation already.
      Odds are that if you're close enough for the radiation to get through that much, you're *way* too close to survive the actual bomb blast itself.

    • @hp8658
      @hp8658 5 років тому +3

      @@phantomaviator1318 YEAH AHHAHA HUM HUM

    • @Unsujetoquecomenta
      @Unsujetoquecomenta 5 років тому +5

      Phantom Aviator step 20: star dancing Wooly Bully.

    • @TheEsdaniel
      @TheEsdaniel 5 років тому +14

      and remember to make a fence around the place to avoid creepers blowing up your refuge!

  • @threeRcar
    @threeRcar 5 років тому +298

    Radio: NUCLEAR ATTACK IMBOUND! SEEK SHELTER NOW
    Me: **chilling in homemade fallout shelter watching TV**

    • @addust
      @addust 5 років тому +9

      and me: chilling in a shelter with computer playing ROBLOX and spreading the nuclear alert

    • @AtrociousAK47
      @AtrociousAK47 4 роки тому +2

      Like that false emergency alert that went off in Hawaii back in 2018 that read "BALLISTIC MISSILE THREAT INBOUND TO HAWAII, SEEK IMMEDIATE SHELTER, THIS IS NOT A DRILL" with a few reporting sirens as well.

    • @dontlookatmychannel2640
      @dontlookatmychannel2640 3 роки тому

      @Toasty boi 😭😭

  • @nothisispatrick4644
    @nothisispatrick4644 5 років тому +1526

    Take me home
    Country roads
    To the place I belong
    West virginia

  • @TheRobloxExpert
    @TheRobloxExpert 5 років тому +356

    This would be useful
    If you're an North Korean who is afraid of a missile attack from Murica
    Another Tip: Obsidian reinforces it. Diamond is op. If not just hide in the Nether

    • @Ketszercsip
      @Ketszercsip 5 років тому +10

      Not sure if you realize, but we still live on the same globe

    • @nitsu2947
      @nitsu2947 5 років тому +25

      You're a traitor, you helped Minecraft peoples and not robloxians

    • @salamilid3520
      @salamilid3520 5 років тому +2

      Another pro tip: Call a Haxer and ask for bedrock it can nut be broken.

    • @nuclearwarhead9338
      @nuclearwarhead9338 5 років тому +3

      You're not allowed to do that

    • @meowmeow9300
      @meowmeow9300 5 років тому

      Just used bedrock but u need creative mode. Diamond does not protect against this stuff

  • @richardmaxwell4923
    @richardmaxwell4923 5 років тому +127

    Or you could PREPARE FOR THE FUTURE! With Vault-Tec!
    Also, nice 60s styled sponsor.

    • @damianmontoya6414
      @damianmontoya6414 5 років тому +2

      General Atomics Gaming Co. Main Hub yeah I could also be a human lab rat

    • @richardmaxwell4923
      @richardmaxwell4923 5 років тому +2

      Damian Montoya Lab rat? You mean Vault Resident, surviving nuclear fallout with Vault-Tec!

    • @damianmontoya6414
      @damianmontoya6414 5 років тому +1

      I know your ploy YOU CANT FOOL ME I know that you’re just using people in tests, what about vault 11 where you said that if people didn’t sacrifice one of their own you would kill them all but that turned out to be fake

    • @damianmontoya6414
      @damianmontoya6414 5 років тому +2

      Oh I also forgot to talk about vault 34 where you made a vault with a bunch of weapons and little living space and watched what would happen

    • @hp8658
      @hp8658 5 років тому +1

      Mmmmmm.......Yes I Will Love To Be A Lab Rat 🙄

  • @nielsoncallejo8845
    @nielsoncallejo8845 4 роки тому +93

    Dad: *hears atom bomb baby*
    Son: what was that
    Dad: it's time
    Dad: *puts on power armor*
    Dad: oh and also you're gonna get kidnapped

    • @unclebuns5286
      @unclebuns5286 4 роки тому +3

      Fallout 4

    • @krieger8825
      @krieger8825 2 роки тому +5

      Remember son, in 80 years there'll be a bald guy trying to become the founder of the 3rd Roman Empire

  • @fartch13
    @fartch13 5 років тому +81

    0:27 So your telling me the *COLD* war was *HEATING* up

  • @capitanorotta9060
    @capitanorotta9060 5 років тому +166

    How to build a nuclear shelter:
    Don't, just hide in your mom's wardrobe.

  • @Captain23rdGaming
    @Captain23rdGaming 5 років тому +267

    I don't want to set the world on fire🎵

    • @kanyegaming5296
      @kanyegaming5296 5 років тому +26

      IIIIII JUST WANT TO STAAAAAART
      A FLAME IN YOUR HEARRRRT

    • @Andrew-hz5qz
      @Andrew-hz5qz 5 років тому +15

      I JUST WANT TO BE THE ONE YOU LOVE
      AND WITH YOUR AMBITIONS AND I FEEL THE SAME
      ........

    • @bconroy328
      @bconroy328 5 років тому +10

      THEEEEERRRRRREEEEEE WAS NEVER A MAAAAN LIKE MY JHOOOONNNNY... LIKE THE ONE THEY CALL JHONNY GUITAR

    • @radking9854
      @radking9854 5 років тому +10

      @@bconroy328 BIIGGGGGG IROOONNNN BIIGGGGGG IROOONNNN

    • @bconroy328
      @bconroy328 5 років тому +9

      @@radking9854 I GOT SPUUUUUUURRRRRRAS THAT JINGLE JANGLE, JIIIIIIINNNNNNGGGLE JAAAAANGLE

  • @eckbee5269
    @eckbee5269 5 років тому +486

    This seems too expensive. I'll just hide in the fridge

    • @noahgunnels7902
      @noahgunnels7902 5 років тому +58

      Ok Indiana Jones

    • @jbhamid
      @jbhamid 5 років тому +59

      Billy the kid in the fridge reference?

    • @ethan1746
      @ethan1746 5 років тому +18

      Eck Bee Indiana Jones

    • @LAV-III
      @LAV-III 5 років тому +28

      See you in 200 years Billy

    • @ice9232
      @ice9232 5 років тому +14

      Reminds me of that ghoul kid

  • @samrajchahal3156
    @samrajchahal3156 5 років тому +101

    Just go to your local metro station.

    • @thewarden6050
      @thewarden6050 4 роки тому +20

      Preferably near D.C. or Moscow.

    • @WarriorPNG
      @WarriorPNG 4 роки тому +8

      @@thewarden6050 nah in dc there are super mutants go to any ncr city preferably shady sands or new vegas outpost

    • @thewarden6050
      @thewarden6050 4 роки тому +2

      @@WarriorPNG How about the vaults, are they safe?

    • @ELVIR2
      @ELVIR2 3 роки тому +1

      MDL

    • @Oussama_On_Ladder
      @Oussama_On_Ladder 2 роки тому

      *Artyom*

  • @lindahosey984
    @lindahosey984 5 років тому +25

    Thanks for this man! I've been stuck in the Cold War for ages and I didn't know how to build a shelter, thank you

  • @nitsu2947
    @nitsu2947 5 років тому +762

    *COUNTRY ROADS*
    *TAKE ME HOME*
    *TO THE PLACE*
    *I BELOOOOOONG*
    *WEST VIRGINIA*

  • @shadowsentry6507
    @shadowsentry6507 5 років тому +242

    Early. I think I'm playing to much Fallout

  • @ceti_9998
    @ceti_9998 2 роки тому +4

    I knew this kind of day will come

  • @weather067
    @weather067 2 роки тому +6

    I understand why this shows in my yt algorithm.

  • @janglobus9384
    @janglobus9384 5 років тому +46

    Sign up. And prepare for the Future!
    ---Vault Tec Corp. Copyright 2077---

  • @averageyoutubeuser851
    @averageyoutubeuser851 2 роки тому +5

    Maybe I will need this for later

  • @Hamchunk1968
    @Hamchunk1968 2 роки тому +12

    This reminds me of an episode of Happy Days. Howard wanted to use the family vacation money to build a fallout shelter. The rest of the family wanted to go to the Carlsbad Caverns.
    The last scene of the episode shows a moribund Howard standing in a shallow hole in the backyard holding a shovel and wearing an early WWII helmet. 🙂

  • @minxes69
    @minxes69 5 років тому +33

    I love the way the narrator talks in the beginning and end, it's like fallout 4

  • @archangelvanny1816
    @archangelvanny1816 2 роки тому +4

    Great timing of recommending this UA-cam! We'll surely need this now🙂

  • @joshkpatakpa5302
    @joshkpatakpa5302 5 років тому +12

    At vault simple history our way of life begins 🙌🏾

  • @mr.n34l60
    @mr.n34l60 5 років тому +70

    West Virginiaaaaaaa
    Mountain mamaaaaaaa
    Take me hoMEeeeeeeee
    *COUNTRY ROADDDDDDD*!!!!!!!!

  • @ndotspibbalot4121
    @ndotspibbalot4121 5 років тому +15

    You should make a SIMPLE HISTORY THE GAME
    it goes thru ages

  • @kaelanross185
    @kaelanross185 5 років тому +3

    I actually managed to find one of those old fallout shelter building booklets from the Cold War in an old antique shop. It still had the letter from the director of the Bureau of the census at the time.

  • @nekomancer1495
    @nekomancer1495 5 років тому +8

    Almost heaven, West Virginia
    Blue Ridge Mountains, Shenandoah River
    Life is old there, older than the trees
    Younger than the mountains, blowing like a breeze
    Country roads, take me home
    To the place I belong
    West Virginia, mountain mamma
    Take me home, country roads
    All my memories gather round her
    Miner's lady, stranger to blue water
    Dark and dusty, painted on the sky
    Misty taste of moonshine, teardrop in my eye
    Country roads, take me home
    To the place I belong
    West Virginia, mountain mamma
    Take me home, country roads
    I hear her voice in the morning hour she calls me
    The radio reminds me of my home far away
    Driving down the road I get a feeling
    That I should have been home yesterday, yesterday

  • @Time4me2change
    @Time4me2change 5 років тому +7

    Wow this channel grew so fast, I remember seeing a video at around 70k subscribers. Congrats on your channel growth and thanks for the entertaining and informative videos!

  • @leaderofthelewishpeople6382
    @leaderofthelewishpeople6382 5 років тому +21

    How about a video about the bomb tests on the Tsar Bomba?

  • @Panzer_Runner
    @Panzer_Runner 5 років тому +41

    **Country road intensifies*

  • @ZeFluffyKnight
    @ZeFluffyKnight 5 років тому +111

    Patrolling the Mojave almost makes you wish for a nuclear winter.

    • @Dabadi4834
      @Dabadi4834 4 роки тому +5

      Fluffy Knight Ave, True to Caesar

    • @WarriorPNG
      @WarriorPNG 4 роки тому +3

      @@Dabadi4834 Robert Edwin House, 261, President, CEO, and sole proprietor of the New Vegas Strip, industrialist and technologist, founder, President, and CEO of the multi-billion-dollar pre-war robotics and software corporation, RobCo Industries, has died.
      Generally recognized by Mr. House to be mankind's only hope of long-term survival, Mr. House's passing may well sound a death knell for the entire human race.
      Lost forever is his bounty of knowledge concerning human longevity, the depth and breadth of which could, as he was apt to say, "fill several text books." He was not exaggerating. Though he did not achieve his goal of functional immortality, let us not forget that he died at the age of 261. How many people do that? I mean, come on.
      Also lost forever are House's singular personality, force of will, vision, and leadership ability. The probability of an equally capable figure emerging from the current human population to lead mankind to a future of equivalent quality is less than 0.000112% by objective measures too complex to detail in this obituary.
      Personality and force of will: Born June 25th, 2020, House was orphaned at an early age when his parents died in a freak accident (auto gyro, lightning). Though cheated of his inheritance, House attended the prestigious Institute in Massachusetts and founded RobCo Industries on his 22nd birthday. Within five years, it was one of the most profitable corporations on Earth.
      Vision: By 2065, House was certain that an atomic war would soon devastate the planet. At great personal expense, he developed technologies to ensure the structural integrity of the city of Las Vegas (as it was known at the time). On the day of the great war, 77 atomic warheads targeted the city. Mr. House defeated them all. Talk about vision!
      Leadership: Mr. House survived the war, of course, and would later recruit the Three Families, negotiate the Treaty of New Vegas, and rebuild the Vegas Strip. While these achievements yielded many immediate benefits, they were all part of House's master plan to re-ignite mankind's quest for technological advancement, a plan without which the human race has nowhere to go, and nowhere to turn.
      /// Will revise and finish this up later. Have set the age at death to update automatically. Obit makes salient points but "pearls before swine," of course. Let's hope the ingrates never have cause to read it. Who knows how many of them are even literate!

    • @professionaltaxevader2699
      @professionaltaxevader2699 4 роки тому +1

      @@WarriorPNG cheese

  • @Enderdragon1800
    @Enderdragon1800 5 років тому +1

    2:28 for those wanting to know inflation calcs:
    May 1959: 150$ = Oct 2018: 1,308.03$
    1959: 200$ = 2018: 1,744.03$

  • @dadtype2339
    @dadtype2339 4 місяці тому

    That knocking on the hatch and her eyes open all quiet was too funny!!! Like they wouldn't know your not in there during THAT time lol❤

  • @asbestoss919
    @asbestoss919 5 років тому +105

    Wow! They made Fallout 76 into a real thing!

  • @jadwayneranzenuri2637
    @jadwayneranzenuri2637 2 роки тому +3

    This might be useful

  • @psyxypher3881
    @psyxypher3881 5 років тому +40

    "War. War Never Changes."
    ...I've really only played Fallout 1.

    • @shaider1982
      @shaider1982 4 роки тому +1

      Me, its Fallout 2

    • @breadchip4411
      @breadchip4411 2 роки тому

      "and if war doesn't change, men must change... and so must their symbols."

  • @bakedhawaii
    @bakedhawaii 5 років тому +10

    The radio is the only thing I need to live.
    **plays take me home country roads**

    • @trident_wastaken5654
      @trident_wastaken5654 5 років тому

      Fallout 76
      Btw that song is by Jhon Denver
      And Denver is my name

  • @southronjr1570
    @southronjr1570 5 років тому +4

    Couple of things, I actually remember having a duck and cover drill in school in the early 80's. Second, the booklet actually recommended digging a latrine hole and sectioning off the toilet with walls and to keep a supply of lime on hand to be able to pour on the latrines hole every few uses. It also advised for a hand pump well if possible be dug inside the shelter, the garbage can and canned water was the least desirable way to go about it. The heat issue was only a problem in the above ground shelters in certain areas like FL and AZ and those built with less than adequate wall and roof thickness.

  • @mondaymotivator_
    @mondaymotivator_ 5 років тому +22

    Vault Tec more like family tec am I right?

  • @PennsylvaniaPlinker
    @PennsylvaniaPlinker 5 років тому +4

    I grew up in a suburb of a major American city, and my neighbor had transformed the basement of his rancher style (one floor) home into a fallout shelter during the 60’s. I never got to see it, but from what I’ve heard it was considered “world class” at the time it was constructed, plus it added massive resale value to the property.

    • @louannchipman1749
      @louannchipman1749 10 місяців тому

      My Dee (Daddy) did this to our rancher back before I was born in 1966. It was just off the main basement. It was pretty sweet.

  • @lastdogstanding7723
    @lastdogstanding7723 2 роки тому +4

    im back getting ready for this next cold war 😁

  • @StarClad13
    @StarClad13 5 років тому +1

    I use to Live in Norfolk VA and there was old Fallout shelters all over the damn place from the cold war days and it was more interesting because it was so close to the base. I grew up in a Military and most of the old house near base had homemade shelters featured in this video. Thanks Simple history for helping explain the Propose of these structures that some don't know about today.

    • @AyeeeItsAlii
      @AyeeeItsAlii Рік тому

      Yoo I used to live in Norfolk! I never really noticed them or even seen any

  • @percybeani
    @percybeani 3 роки тому +4

    This is going to be very helpful for my next build!

  • @goldmember668
    @goldmember668 5 років тому +22

    thought this would be sponsored by fallout 76

  • @natfletcher6394
    @natfletcher6394 5 років тому +71

    If the cold war was heating up... It's not the cold war it's the warm war.

    • @BiggsTheOwl
      @BiggsTheOwl 5 років тому +4

      Mild war

    • @Cavelson
      @Cavelson 4 роки тому

      Yes but... you know... actually no...

  • @animeneweablet
    @animeneweablet 4 роки тому +10

    1:30
    History of LEGO By Simple History Easter Egg

  • @jamesm2785
    @jamesm2785 4 роки тому +1

    One of the houses down the street form my old one had one so when I was helping the new neighbors work on the yard to clean it up we found a bunker door under a bush

  • @scheweine6245
    @scheweine6245 2 роки тому +1

    Getting ready.

  • @CallyWasHereOfficial
    @CallyWasHereOfficial 5 років тому +6

    Great vid

  • @AncientHistoryGuy
    @AncientHistoryGuy 5 років тому +6

    wow, I've never been this early to a simple history vid. Interesting subject none the less! Great video! :)

  • @user-qi7qb6vw4d
    @user-qi7qb6vw4d 5 років тому +11

    Wow,your videos are getting good

  • @mbaxter22
    @mbaxter22 2 роки тому +2

    This vid is suddenly relevant again!

  • @iniohos2
    @iniohos2 2 роки тому

    My grandpa had built one in the backyard, we used to play there when we were children, and dad sometimes put us there if we misbehaved.

  • @JoeFresi
    @JoeFresi 5 років тому +97

    Not a world war 2 video?
    Eh I’ll watch it anyway

  • @starroving6464
    @starroving6464 5 років тому +15

    Do a same version on it, on the USSR's side.

    • @PRubin-rh4sr
      @PRubin-rh4sr 5 років тому +1

      this but translated in Russian

    • @jordanstewart2455
      @jordanstewart2455 5 років тому +2

      Well for all of the Soviet Union's faults, of which there were many, preparing for nuclear war wasn't one of them. Most towns and small cities with a large number of engineers, doctors, professors, etc. had fallout shelters installed in most basements of apartment complexes and homes (because the smart people are important). For larger city's like Moscow the local metro tunnels and stations were built to withstand a near direct hit from most atomic bombs and stockpiled with weapons, food, water, medical supplies, and NBC gear. However this is because the party controlled all the mony and the workers didn't really have a choice in the matter of building these shelters.

    • @LazyTacoProductions
      @LazyTacoProductions 5 років тому

      I think they were more worried about food and paying back the land lease lmao

    • @starroving6464
      @starroving6464 5 років тому +1

      @@LazyTacoProductions Actually USSR had a pretty good life style after Stalin's death and Kruschev to power.

  • @NiclaS03K
    @NiclaS03K 5 років тому +5

    Do a video about the Swedish Royal Guards!

  • @yeeeettttt3299
    @yeeeettttt3299 3 роки тому +2

    One time I saw a fallout shelter sign on a apartment wall and some stairs going underground because we were in the range of the nukes

  • @ferdonandebull
    @ferdonandebull Рік тому +1

    Guys I was alive in 1962.. the scare was there but people lived with it long enough they just didn’t take it seriously..
    We had a garage that was a compartmentalism fallout shelter..
    There was a lot of these kinds of things around.
    Yes you could build a shelter in your basement.. a deep corner that was blocked off was simple enough to do.
    But what people ended up doing is putting in a sleeping shelter like a tornado shelter then blocking entrances and windows of the basement to keep them clean.. sandbags was a common way.
    So the majority of your time would be spent in the shelter but you used the entire basement for storage.
    Blast effect wasn’t something that suburban people really worried about because they were not around strategic targets..

  • @leaderofthelewishpeople6382
    @leaderofthelewishpeople6382 5 років тому +13

    Country Roads intensifies

  • @generalflowerhead2047
    @generalflowerhead2047 5 років тому +104

    In Soviet russia you don't build fallout shelters, fallout shelters builds you!

    • @kirillassasin
      @kirillassasin 5 років тому +2

      In Capitalist America you are still poor and can’t offer Fallout Shelter

    • @richardmaxwell4923
      @richardmaxwell4923 5 років тому +4

      So comrade, we need organs and a brain. Is true comrade shelter #1087378?

    • @djstapler
      @djstapler 5 років тому

      I can confirm. That is how I was born XD

    • @aliceakosota797
      @aliceakosota797 5 років тому

      Artyom

    • @gj3514
      @gj3514 5 років тому +2

      @Social Jetlag it wasn't like they had a choice not to starve lol

  • @leaderofthelewishpeople6382
    @leaderofthelewishpeople6382 5 років тому +38

    RTGame would have a field day if he's supplied with nukes.

  • @arsenalxa4421
    @arsenalxa4421 5 років тому +1

    Given how things are going im tempted to build one in my yard. Problem is the soil conditions in North Central Texas aren't the best for basements.

  • @andrewdose7812
    @andrewdose7812 5 років тому +2

    I Just started a business making survival/fallout shelters. And I use wix for my companies website. Small world!! Coincidence?? I think not!

  • @rohamtavakkoli7562
    @rohamtavakkoli7562 4 роки тому +5

    1:45 Jimmy Hoffa's body found

  • @dinosorusmechkiller7960
    @dinosorusmechkiller7960 5 років тому +28

    Okay, but are they safe for raiders?

    • @cannedbeans29
      @cannedbeans29 5 років тому

      Yes, yes they can but probably they can't survive radscorpion

    • @FrancisR420
      @FrancisR420 5 років тому +1

      Yes they were built with an angled door no more than 2 ft wide because Raiders only travel in a straight line

  • @overconfidentforce1353
    @overconfidentforce1353 5 років тому +19

    Take me home
    Country roads
    To the place I belong
    West Virginia!!

  • @laddstreak8468
    @laddstreak8468 5 років тому +1

    You taught me so much about history thank you so much

  • @ronaldreagan2444
    @ronaldreagan2444 5 років тому +1

    Your next door neighbor a week before the blast: I think your shelter is never going to be used. I don’t ever want to go inside it.
    One week later: Hippity Hoppity your Fallout Shelter is now our property

  • @dankcitrus42
    @dankcitrus42 5 років тому +11

    Vault-tec: im about end this man' whole career

  • @andrewmin5858
    @andrewmin5858 5 років тому +7

    New DLC for 60 seconds looking rad (pun intended)

  • @Burg2143
    @Burg2143 5 років тому +6

    It reminds me of the Quantum Leap episode “Nuclear Family” anyone else?

    • @shaider1982
      @shaider1982 4 роки тому

      Yep, the kid almost shot the US soldier because of the paranoia his parents were displaying. Good thing Dr. Becket stopped him by saying Duck and Cover.

  • @oldgrayhairs8246
    @oldgrayhairs8246 Рік тому

    I actually have that booklet that my father picked up at the public library, along with a typed “SUGGESTED EMERGENCY SUPPLIES CHECK LIST”, which is dated 3/15/60, from Martinez, CA. Strange but true. He never built the fallout shelter because we didn’t have a basement. I was 7 years old at the time. Good luck to everyone. I still don’t have a basement.

  • @ThogusDonatus
    @ThogusDonatus 2 роки тому +1

    This is my first goal whenever i get a chance to buy myself a house

  • @lanceryderwilson9778
    @lanceryderwilson9778 4 роки тому +3

    Thanks needed this for ww3

  • @anactualalpaca7016
    @anactualalpaca7016 5 років тому +4

    They concluded that most of these shelters would probably not provide the amount of protection they were supposed to, and that the distribution of diy fallout shelter pamflits were just to keep the masses at ease during the cold war. Happy building 🤘

    • @louannchipman1749
      @louannchipman1749 10 місяців тому

      Probably accurate - but ours made a most awesome playroom in the 60's!

  • @captainsouvlakis3557
    @captainsouvlakis3557 5 років тому +5

    For they will fall
    For they will rise
    For they will tear apart the world from your very eyes

  • @williamschutz4982
    @williamschutz4982 4 роки тому +2

    When I was a kid my house had a fall out shelter in its backyard. My dad used it for storage.

  • @gamingsquid6725
    @gamingsquid6725 3 роки тому

    This is good to know, but you know what is good to know? It’s that another settlement needs your help! I’ll mark it on your map!

  • @iazy47
    @iazy47 7 місяців тому +3

    Good morning vault tec calling

    • @ThugShakerCentral54
      @ThugShakerCentral54 4 місяці тому +2

      "I don't care who the IRS sends, I am not paying my taxes!"

  • @mayerlinmurillocorrea7249
    @mayerlinmurillocorrea7249 2 роки тому +4

    DIY Fallout Shelter for the upcoming WWIII

  • @leaderofthelewishpeople6382
    @leaderofthelewishpeople6382 5 років тому +14

    Can radroaches infiltrate the bunker?

    • @lichtishlogistics
      @lichtishlogistics 5 років тому

      Raiders might be able to break the entrance.

    • @hp8658
      @hp8658 5 років тому

      Thats Why You Bring In Fat Boy Whit You

  • @jacobsmith5543
    @jacobsmith5543 5 років тому

    Thanks, I'll use this on my planned trip to the 1960's

  • @russbolario7589
    @russbolario7589 2 роки тому +2

    This might actually be relevant considering the current circumstances