Modern Marvels S08E28 Strategic Air Command

[newcat616]

When I was 12 years old and in the seventh grade, we were asked to join the U.S. Civil Defense organization. I was sent home from school with a white helmet and information to give my parents. All this happened after the Cuban Missile Crisis. Our town had a major target, for the USSR, that manufactured chemical and biological weapons. It was about 3 or 4 miles from my house. We already had SAC bomber bases in our state and eventually missiles. Is it any wonder we all grew up focused on all thi

[sbhattacherya]

The cold war was a wild era to live through: threat of total destruction, civil rights, bell bottoms.