![]() ![]() So, to bring everyone a bit of perspective of what to be thankful for this holiday weekend, we've thrown together a collection of comforting reminders from our Cold War past of the sorts of things the government did to make us stop worrying and learn to love (or at least tolerate) the idea of a survivable nuclear war. The recent release of the latest Fallout game coming on the heels of some truly frightening documents from the National Security Archive seemed designed to bring back some vivid memories from both my military service and from growing up under the nuclear deterrent umbrella-when civil defense evacuation maps were in the front of the phone book, the Emergency Broadcast System test alert sent a chill down everyone's spine, and we were all 30 minutes from being dead at any given moment. I would have dreams about that for some time after-a dark figure lobbing cartoon bombs at my school.Īs a former military officer from the Reagan and Bush eras, I'm Ars Technica's unofficial Cold Warrior in Residence. I figured it had something to do with the windows. I pictured Boris Badenov lobbing a bomb toward our school and wondered what kneeling in a hallway would do to protect us from that. She replied, "It's what we do if there's a bomb." Cohen, led us out of the classroom into the school's brick-lined central hallway and told us to kneel with our heads down in the "duck and cover" position. ![]() ![]() I was in the second grade at Coram Elementary School. ![]() In the fall of 1971, I got my first taste of what the Cold War was really about. ![]()
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