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This. Growing up in the fifties meant your school days were punctuated with drills where you'd cowee under your desk in case nuclear Armageddon had arrived and
by jpatokal 8y ago
This. Growing up in the fifties meant your school days were punctuated with drills where you'd cowee under your desk in case nuclear Armageddon had arrived and the world was going to end.
- sjg007 8y agoNow you have to cower to avoid an active shooter which is probably statistically more likely than a nuclear strike.
- pasabagi 8y agoTo be honest, I think the most likely outcome of the cold-war was nuclear annihilation. There were a bunch of times when the trigger was nearly pulled on that one, where world leaders were engaged in brinksmanship, drunk at the switch, where electronic systems failed, where bombs got dropped out of planes by accident, or, in one case, where a general went rogue and decided he wanted to nuke China.
- travisoneill1 8y agoIf you sample the last 100 years there would be a lot more deaths from nuclear strikes.
- tonyedgecombe 8y agoIt might be difficult to understand for later generations but we really did think things would end like this. If you are doubtful take a look at this video the UK government put out in the seventies: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXx5Y2Fr2bk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXx5Y2Fr2bk
- munificent 8y agoMy daughters do these drills in school now, except that instead of a nuclear Armageddon, it's an active shooter. The primary difference is that school shootings actually happen.