Episode
Selects: Fallout Shelters: Probably Useless (Let’s Never Find Out)
Stuff You Should Know · Sep 19, 2026 · 48 min
The advent of nuclear weapons and the Cold War kicked off a craze in the US for building rec rooms with foot-thick reinforced walls and outfitted with survival rations and board games. Would they work? Probably not. Find out (but not really) in this classic episode. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.