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Blazing yellow-and-black signs screwed to the library walls claim it still is, though government plans relying on such havens wilted long ago.īut nuclear disaster planning has been thrust back into public view after an employee of the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency mistakenly sent a cellphone alert to residents last week warning of an impending ballistic missile attack.

Many students have pointed out that shelters at Harvard would be totally useless if a nuclear bomb fell anywhere near Boston.The government sent these things in the mid-20th century, when the 115-year-old building on Third Street was an active fallout shelter. Radcliffe girls have also removed signs in the quad.ĭean Monro observed that the shelters were only for fallout, and could only be useful if a nuclear attack were "quite some distance" from Boston. Signs in Dunster House have been repeatedly removed, forcing the University to rivet them to the walls. Several students have been vocal in their opposition to the shelter program. Cambridge citizens as well as students would be granted access to the basements. "The students have a right to their opinions on that," he said.Īs the shelters will not be operated by the University, there will be no restrictions on their usage, Wiggins said. Wiggins also refused to discuss the wisdom of putting up shelter signs before the designated areas are equipped with food and radiation detection materials. According to Wiggins, "Harvard will pay nothing for equipping the shelters."ĭeclining to comment on student criticism of the shelters, Wiggins said the University's cooperation with the Civil Defense agency "does not mean Harvard has taken a judgment on the value of the program." Wiggins said the University had previously agreed to cooperate with the Federal Civil Defense authorities in establishing five shelters on an experimental basis and that signs were posted last week in accordance with that agreement.Īlthough the Civil Defense agency is supposed to stock the shelters with food and medical facilities, it has given the University no indication of when the basements will be stocked, or specifically what will go in them. Gard Wiggins, Administrative Vice President. The University currently has no plans to stock basements recently designated as fallout shelters according to L.