Research


Scope and Content Note

The series represents a variety of materials (correspondence, memoranda, plans, press releases, reports and cost estimates) covering various aspects of commission activity, which ebbed through the early 1970s as the threat of foreign attack diminished. Activities documented include fallout shelter construction, emergency radio networks, disaster planning, and population evacuation.

13125-99: The bulk of the accretion consists of engineering plans, specifications, designs, and cost estimates for planned fallout shelter construction throughout the state. Most of the records relate to shelters at state institutions such as hospitals, special schools, and correctional facilities. Planning especially involved the Civil Defense Commission, the Division of Architecture (Dept. of Public Works) and the Executive Department, and the primary focus of the series appears to be budgetary.