Family Discovers Hatch in the Backyard of a Newly Purchased Home and Spots a Decades-Old Mystery

The Cold War

Pansch bought his house at the beginning of a decade that would become consumed with the cold war, which had its peak in the 1960s. He was aware that the cold war was only going to get worse with time.

The American Yawp

He felt as though it was rational to build a fallout shelter. The Cuban Missile Crisis occurred only a couple of years after he finished building it.