One man kept a journal and shared it with the Oakland Tribune. On Day 2, men were forced to stop smoking, which caused alarm, but alas a broken filter was fixed and they were once again able to light up their beloved cigarettes. Instead of brushing their teeth, they received a pill, which foamed up when they washed it with water. Strope, who was conducting the experiment, played music on his stereo phonograph from Montavani to Brubeck. The men were separated into groups of 10, and every afternoon group leaders discussed gripes.ĭr. Like our Facebook page for more conversation and news coverage from the East Bay and beyond. The biggest complaint during the experiment was noise - snoring and chatty inmates. This photo shows people exiting the shelter. A copy of a December 1959 photograph of a Naval Radiology Defense Laboratory fallout shelter experiment copied at the Alameda County Sheriff’s office archives in Dublin, on Aug.
The inmates were selected from 400 volunteers and got their sentences shortened with their participation. A closed-circuit video camera recorded their actions. Of the 92 inmates who started, one man developed an infection and did not last the full two weeks.Įach participant wore a vest with his identification number, and scientists recorded their progress eating specified diets. The 99 men had spent two weeks in the underground fallout shelter, testing the effects of the isolation as part of a military effort to design better bunkers amid the Cold War threat of nuclear war. 17, 1959, a military band played “The River Kwai” as 91 Alameda County inmates and eight deputies, doctors and scientists, many with prickly beards, walked out of a hole in the ground at the mysterious Naval Radiological Defense Laboratory.
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