The City of Toronto took broad measures to develop a plan to shield its citizens in the event of an attack, building a command centre and scouting existing structures that could double as bunkers. In the foreword, Diefenbaker calmly told Canadians toxic debris from a nuclear explosion could spread thousands of miles from the epicentre, warning the "risk would be widespread" if such an attack took place. Diefenbaker issued a special pamphlet detailing how the average homeowner could build a bunker in their basement, Ă la the movie Blast From The Past. Nuclear fallout - radioactive shrapnel from a nuclear blast - was enough of a concern that the the government under prime minister John G.
If there was one thing that terrified practically everybody in the 1960s and 70s, it was the threat of an atomic bomb being dropped on a major city.
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