For those of you who might live in America in the '60's
Did you really thought that those wooden shacks really protected you from a nuclear blast!?
shareDid you really thought that those wooden shacks really protected you from a nuclear blast!?
shareWhat about teaching school children to duck and cover under their desks in case of a nuclear attack. They would have been vaporized in an instant.
shareI don't know, man
I'm watching "project blue book" and I noticed that silly thing
Weren’t there people during the Hiroshima blast who just happened to be in the right spot and survived while people just several feet away were killed?
shareThere was at least one person who survived both blasts:
https://www.history.com/news/the-man-who-survived-two-atomic-bombs
Well we had drills where we went to inside hallways, but I don't recall ever hiding under my desk. I think most people were concerned about fallout - not surviving a direct blast.
shareYou're right. I'm mixing up earthquake drills when the teacher would yell "drop" then we would quickly get under our desks for protection of falling objects. I remember going into the hallways for a nuclear blast drills.
shareAn old timer, tell your stories.
shareIt depends on where your shack is located relative to ground zero.
shareLol, another good one, Jack.
shareThanks. Growing up less than 20 miles from midtown Manhattan, I never had any illusions about surviving a nuclear war. My shack/wood house and my concrete-and-steel school would have both been reduced to ash. No "The Day After" for me.
shareYour quip reinforced the already hilarious mental image of someone huddled in a wooden shack, trying to ride out a nuclear blast.
That movie hit kind of close to home for me. I'm in Kansas, just not as far east. I know of at least one abandoned, underground missile silo, such as the ones depicted in the film, just west of me.
I saw this on TCM. It was about how important it was to keep a tidy home in case nuclear war broke out. :-)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-t_5wthG0Wc