165,000 Tons: The Food The US Government Stored For You

Between 1962 and 1970 the US government placed 165,000 tons of food into roughly 100,000 fallout shelters across America - the largest civilian food stockpile in the country's history. In 1976 it ordered nearly all of it destroyed. Not because of a war. Because it had gone rancid - the result of a long term food storage decision made fourteen years earlier that most home stockpiles still get wrong today. Every figure in this video comes from primary government documents: the Office of Civil Defense Shelter Management Textbook, the Federal Civil Defense Guide, and Civil Preparedness Circular 76-2, the 1976 notice that ended the program. Covers what was actually in a stocked shelter, why the emergency food supply plan allowed only 700 calories per person per day, what the ration actually consisted of, why the crackers went bad, and the four food storage lessons that still apply. WHAT'S COVERED: - Why one quart of water per person per day was the plan. - The sedative that was in every shelter medical kit. - Why 36 crackers a day was the American survival ration. - Why the sanitation supplies outlasted the food. - Why cereal-based rations go rancid and white rice doesn't. - Where Cold War shelter supplies are still being found. SOURCES DCPA: - Civil Preparedness Guide 1-19, July 1978 DCPA Civil Preparedness Circular 76-2, 29 September 1976 Office of Civil Defense SM-16.1 Shelter Management Textbook, July 1967 Federal Civil Defense Guide, Part D, Chapter 2 Civil Defense Museum archive. long term food storage, emergency food supply, what to stockpile, food storage mistakes, disaster preparedness, fallout shelter, civil defense, survival crackers, prepper food storage, food storage shelf life, cold war history, prepper pantry staples, food rotation, emergency preparedness, white rice storage #prepping #foodstorage #longtermfoodstorage #preppers #stockpile #coldwar #civildefense #preparedness #prepperpantry #falloutshelter