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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!?

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What 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.

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I don't know, man

I'm watching "project blue book" and I noticed that silly thing

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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?

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There was at least one person who survived both blasts:
https://www.history.com/news/the-man-who-survived-two-atomic-bombs

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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.

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You'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.

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An old timer, tell your stories.

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What wooden shacks? I knew a few people who had bomb shelters built but they were underground structures.

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Those "already cut ones" only need assembled

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My great grandparents has a bomb shelter. It was a spooky place.

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It depends on where your shack is located relative to ground zero.

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Lol, another good one, Jack.

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Thanks. 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.

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Your 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.

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Most of them were made from concrete, and were underground, you misinformed and goofy Romanian!

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"most of them"

You should revise your statement

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Why? It's true, you goofy Romanian.

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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

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