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Article content For 45 years, during the Cold War, the world was terrorized by the threat of nuclear war. With tensions reaching a boiling point between the United States and the Soviet Union over Berlin, Vietnam, and Cuba, the year 1962 was the most perilous in human history. It was in that year that Huron County, like the rest of humanity, prepared for surviving the unthinkable. Despite the post-war prosperity, the world lived under the shadow of the nuclear mushroom cloud. Geopolitically, Canada, located between the two superpowers, would have been the “No-Man’s-Land” of any nuclear exchange. Planning for nuclear war was always a concern, a 1959 Financial Post article suggested that the Sifto salt mine was “one of the finest atomic bomb shelters in Canada.” Further, the Post speculated, access to such an extensive bomb shelter would “sell Goderich to prospective new industries.”

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