

Fallout shelters were often spaces like concrete-walled basements that could be retrofitted with air filtration systems, intended to protect occupants from the radioactive byproducts of a modest nuclear detonation. The advent of thermonuclear warheads-high-yield hydrogen bombs much more powerful than those dropped on Japan during World War II-rendered them moot. Rolled out in the early 1960s by the now-defunct Office of Civil Defense, they were never as well-equipped or funded as originally envisioned, which, frankly, didn’t much matter. Truthfully, fallout shelters were never all they were cracked up to be. These are, at this point, antiques, vestiges of a more innocent time a time when we liked to cling to the notion that a nuclear attack was readily survivable, sort of like a tornado, but with more gamma rays and fewer flying cows. They are also attempting to secure higher residual payments for work done on streaming platforms.Q: Would a 1960s-era designated “Fallout Shelter” help me in a nuclear attack today?Ī: We’ve all seen those yellow and black signs, emblazoned with three triangles, announcing the presence nearby of a fallout shelter. Both the Writers Guild and SAG-AFTRA are seeking stronger protections in their contracts involving AI as the burgeoning technology becomes more popular in the film industry. Actors will also be barred from doing promotional work, such as events like the Oppenheimer premiere. All film and television production that uses SAG-AFTRA members will be shut down because of the strike. The decision was widely anticipated after SAG-AFTRA announced the contract with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, which represents production companies and streaming services, expired without a deal being agreed to.

This is the first time in more than 60 years both the actors and writers in Hollywood will be striking at the same time. SAG-AFTRA president Fran Drescher announced the union’s national board unanimously agreed to strike beginning midnight Pacific time Thursday. “Unfortunately they’re off to write their picket signs for what we believe to be an imminent strike by SAG.” Key Background “We have to acknowledge (that) you’ve seen them here earlier on the red carpet,” Nolan said at the U.K.
