Daily History Picture: Soviet Nuclear Advice February 26, 2018
Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures , trackback
Soviet nuclear advice: duck before the mushroom cloud.
28 Feb 2018, Nathaniel S: ‘For years I had a puzzling memory that during the first grade (1962 – 63, age 6) in my hometown near Seattle, we kids were taught “a new kind of fire drill”. The familiar type of fire drill involved forming a line and walking out of the school building. This new one consisted of going out of the classroom into the hallway and curling up, with our arms over our heads. We were never told why. Eventually I put things together and realized that since the Cuban Missile Crisis was in October 1962, the “new fire drill” was almost certainly a part of civil defense preparations for a nuclear attack. With Seattle to the south and the Boeing Aircraft factory in Everett to the north my little town was in between a couple of prime targets. I am certain that if nuclear war had occurred it would have killed us all very quickly. Maybe the powers that be thought so to because the “new fire drill” was (as far as I can recall) never repeated in subsequent years, and thankfully not needed.’
28 Feb 2018, Southern Man: On the subject of nonsensical nuclear advice British civilians were advised to kill flies after nuclear bombs dropped to keep hygienic conditions and food distribution clean….
