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When I was a kid in the 80s I was sure I was going to experience global nuclear war before I became an adult. I thought about it a lot.
by dionidium 5y ago
When I was a kid in the 80s I was sure I was going to experience global nuclear war before I became an adult. I thought about it a lot.
- AnimalMuppet 5y agoYeah, but we reacted differently. We still went to school, and got jobs, and got married, and had kids, even though the world could end tomorrow.
- buildsjets 5y agoWe still had literal duck-and-cover drills in school long into the mid '80s. New York area. File into the hallway, face the wall, kneel on the ground with your head in the corner between the floor and wall, put your hands behind your neck, kiss your ass goodbye.
- Stranger43 5y agoWhere i live we had weekly air siren tests back in the 80ies, i don't think that was ever the case for America but on the projected front-lines the Cold War was very real, and the release of tension that when the wall finally came crusting down and the eastern European countries re-emerged as friends were an powerful event doing my childhood.