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0 pointsmikeash8y ago0 comments

The probability of being in a location where it would make a difference was high. Huge parts of major cities would be in that zone.

Duck and cover dates from the 1950s, where the US's end of nuclear war would have looked much closer to a strangelovian "hair mussed" than the total apocalypse you describe. The Soviet Union didn't have the capability to cause that level of damage to the US until the mid 1960s or so.

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dragonwriter8y ago

> Duck and cover dates from the 1950s

The bad reputation of duck and cover does not, however.

> The Soviet Union didn't have the capability to cause that level of damage to the US until the mid 1960s or so.

The bad reputation dates from later than the 60s, AFAICT. It's not like duck and cover went away then: we were doing duck and cover drills in my elementary school in the 1980s, and classrooms in community colleges I saw had duck and cover instructions posted prominetly in the 1990s.

mikeashOP8y ago

The bad reputation applied retroactively, though. People think it's stupid it was ever taught.

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