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From what I've heard, there was a lot of talk about bomb shelters, but very few of them were built.
What I'd heard was a bit on NPR which claimed there were only a handful of bomb shelters built in the US, and I admit I wasn't thinking about the rest of the world.
I'm probably born a little late (1953) for the height of bomb-shelter building, but I've never heard second or third-hand about actual bomb shelters in the US, and I think I would have (as parts of basements or somesuch) if they were at all common.
My impression is that the real attitude wasn't so much that a big nuclear war was unlikely as that people thought that if it happened, it wouldn't be worth living through.