I spent the first eighteen years of my life living in a major port city, only a couple of miles from the docks. Everyone, even children, knew the city would be

I spent the first eighteen years of my life living in a major port city, only a couple of miles from the docks. Everyone, even children, knew the city would be flattened if a war went nuclear. Its hard to remember now what the constant subliminal awareness of imminent destruction felt like. Seems that we just don't think about it anymore, even though Russia and the US still have ~2000 active nukes each.