It is based on making the best possible use of the fallout protection now available. This Community Shelter Plan contains this information for every citizen. “In case of danger from fallout from a nuclear attack upon this country, you and your family would need to know WHERE TO GO and WHAT TO DO. The map itself has the following introduction: The above image shows the fallout shelter locations for Shirlington, and the image below lists the names of these shelters. The Arlington Edition of the map sectioned the county into color-coded zones so users could find a shelter in their area and contained tips on creating and stocking your own shelter. The Northern Virginia Region Community Shelter Program, published in 1968, outlined these plans and processes, and also published maps of shelter locations for subsets of the region. These plans included a fallout shelter program, mapping shelters in regard to population centers and how to get people to those shelters.

In late 1960s, the Northern Virginia Regional Planning Commission, which covered the cities of Alexandria, Fairfax and Falls Church and Arlington, Fairfax, Loudon and Prince William Counties, developed a civil defense plan for a possible nuclear attack. In the 1950s and 1960s especially, American citizenry was encouraged to be proactive in protecting themselves from nuclear fallout (remember “Duck and Cover”?).Īrlington was no exception. Their production is efficient at 2-wide and the storage doesn't really scale up as well as production rooms, which are better at 3-wide.Nuclear attack was a constant boogeyman of the Cold War. Medbays and Science Lab are good choices to make 2-wide (since each floor can fit two 3-wides, and one 2-wide). A good dweller will clear the emergency almost immediately because they're much easier. If you're trying to complete emergencies fast for an objective or achievement, use a 1-wide, level 1 room. Wider rooms and more upgraded rooms have harder emergencies (more rodents, higher hp, longer fires, etc). Make the room as wide as you want before upgrading, basically.

It's cheaper to make a room 3-wide, then upgrade, instead of upgrading your 1-wide, upgrading, and then trying to add/upgrade another 1 or 2-wide next to it to get it to merge.

When you upgrade rooms, it's more efficient with caps to upgrade merged rooms. Since all the 2-wide required rooms have already been mentioned, crafting rooms (and the theme research room) are required to be 3 wide.

Connected fallout shelters floor plans