Some relics you can visit, while others are just memories. And much of this Cold War history remains around us. With North Korea and the United States rattling nuclear sabers this month, the Bay Area’s concern has stoked reminders of a time when the specter of nuclear war was a constant source of worry.

For more travel coverage from the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond “There was no standard design for a fallout shelter, so they conducted this experiment,” said Dublin historian Steven Minniear, president of the Dublin Historical Preservation Association, who is writing a book about the city’s history and the mysterious Naval Radiological Defense Laboratory that operated on old Camp Parks land. Off in the foothills of Dublin, the men, wearing vests with their identification numbers, were placed into a large, half-cylinder-shaped room, 25-feet-wide and 48-feet-long, with open toilets, air conditioning, and shuffleboard, cards and checkers to pass the time.

The little-known East Bay nuclear war experiment on Alameda County prisoners

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