Cuban Missile Crisis, Edwards Air Force Base

In 1962, volunteers worked to ready an emergency command post within a fallout shelter located in the Borax Mine, approximately 12 miles from Edwards AFB. The shelter was large enough to accommodate 17,000 people in the event of nuclear war. (Courtesy Photo)

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