I used to wonder if I was alone in thinking that duck and cover was stupid. I talked back to my teacher who was telling me to get under my desk and got sent to the principals office. She just smiled and told me to humor my teacher.

Nope Liz, I never read that particular book but it sounds like many I have read...maybe better written than most. The scariest book I read when I was a kid was a book about a boy in South America, a volcano erupted virtually in his back yard. I was scared to sleep for weeks...and I lived in MN where there were no volcanos!