Comments by "Itinerant Patriot" (@itinerantpatriot1196) on "Dawn of the Atomic Age - W2W 07 - Q3 1946" video.

I grew up in the "Duck and Cover" age, air raid drills at school, lessons on where the fallout shelters were and what was in em, that kind of thing. I got so conditioned to it early on that I accepted a nuclear exchange was inevitable. I got in a bit of trouble for telling the teacher during class that if they said a bomb was on the way I'd grab a mitt and go down to wherever it was going to hit and catch it. I'm not sure it dawned on her that my youthful cynicism came from the stuff adults were feeding into my still forming brain. Truth-be-told the place wasn't half as unstable as it is now. As Archie and Edith put it: "Those were the days."
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