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The Wende Museum in Culver City opened its doors in 2017 inside a former 1949 atomic bomb shelter.

From Los Angeles Times May 10, 2026

In a public bomb shelter two storeys underground, one woman lay sleeping on a bunk bed in the mid-afternoon, while another worked at their laptop.

From Barron's Mar. 18, 2026

At least three times a week, Oleksandr Ryabov climbs into a bomb shelter in the southern Ukrainian city of Bashtanka and waits for his students to arrive.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 29, 2025

He then proceeded to gut the architectural gem, with reports at the time suggesting that he wanted to turn the concrete structure into a kind of modernist bomb shelter.

From MarketWatch Dec. 11, 2025

My music teacher, Mrs. Hinton, told me that our folks had a lot more important things to worry about than a bomb shelter.

From "March Forward, Girl" by Melba Pattillo Beals




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