Leftovers from the Cold War.

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Workers inspecting New York's Brooklyn Bridge in March became accidental archaeologists when they discovered a relic of the Cold War: Deep inside the 123-year-old bridge's foundation was a fallout shelter stocked with water drums, medical kits, and 352,000 canisters of "survival crackers." The boxes of supplies were dated 1957, the year the Soviet Union launched the Sputnik satellite, and 1962, when the Cuban Missile Crisis heightened U.S.-Soviet tensions and the threat of nuclear war...