Smith Reynolds Library and five other buildings, and stocked with enough water, hard candy, tins of crackers and sanitation supplies to last for 48 hours, when radiation levels were expected to be at the highest. Shelters were prepared in the basements of Reynolda Hall, Reynolds Gym, the Z. The committee recommended preparing fallout shelters to accommodate up to 3,000 people to shield “students and staff from nuclear fallout should such protection become necessary,” according to an article in the Old Gold & Black. In early 1962, Wake Forest’s College Committee on Civil Defense followed the president’s lead and took action to help faculty and students survive doomsday. Kennedy encouraged Americans to construct fallout shelters in case of a nuclear attack. With Cold War tensions between the United States and Soviet Union escalating in the early 1960s, President John F.
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