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Hooray! Weve Succeeded In Scaring Our Kids
2014-05-06 21:41:00| Beef
When I was a kid growing up in the 1950s and ‘60s, the Cold War was in full flower. The geopolitical chess and rhetoric went to and fro between the U.S. and the Soviets, both of which held nuclear arsenals sufficient to destroy each other multiple times. A survivable nuclear war was an accepted concept back then. School kids went through drills for nuclear attacks just like they did for schoolhouse fires. Some families even invested the time and money to build and stock underground bunkers where they could shelter during the coming attack. BEEF Editors' Blog read more
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