Kind of makes ya think about the comment this makes on our times and our fears. I can remember doing the duck & cover at school and Burt the turtle on TV, yet there didn't seem to be this ambiguous fear that is around today. No one was shouting in the streets that you had to have a gun to be safe. Yet McCarthyism was part of the 50's too. Even the police are viewed differently in the old movies. Maybe it was just blind optimism since there really were less civil rights back then? But wait, now with the terrorism rules anyone can be held without representation.

I don't know where I saw a film of a atomic bomb, but I remember arguing with the teacher that duck and cover was stupid. My desk wasn't going to protect me. I don't know maybe I was just a really slow study but the sirens and air raid stuff never made me fearful. There was the same level of stupidity when Bush was president with the color coded threat levels and advice on wrapping your house in Plastic wrap.