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re: For people born before 1992, how close was your hometown to a direct Soviet ICBM strike?
Posted on 3/17/21 at 1:54 pm to BeepNode
Posted on 3/17/21 at 1:54 pm to BeepNode
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I remember looking up from under my desk during a bomb drill at a photo of Ronald Reagan that somebody had just put on the wall.
Circa 1984.
As someone who has no vivid memory of the Cold War, bomb drills were still a thing as a late as 1984? I know they were a thing in the 50s and 60s. But they were still doing it in the 80s?
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Posted on 3/17/21 at 1:57 pm to UndercoverBryologist
Yep. I went to a conservative private school and we had at least 2 that I remember.
Posted on 3/17/21 at 1:58 pm to UndercoverBryologist
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I remember looking up from under my desk during a bomb drill at a photo of Ronald Reagan that somebody had just put on the wall.
Circa 1984.
As someone who has no vivid memory of the Cold War, bomb drills were still a thing as a late as 1984? I know they were a thing in the 50s and 60s. But they were still doing it in the 80s?
Speaking of which, I know "Duck and Cover" gets a lot of laughs because of the seeming futility of the effort, but it probably still helps to duck and cover if you're 10 miles or more from the epicenter of the detonation. At that range, you probably wouldn't have fried in the blast, and ducking and covering probably would have kept you from being impaled from flying glass.
Posted on 3/17/21 at 2:25 pm to UndercoverBryologist
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As someone who has no vivid memory of the Cold War, bomb drills were still a thing as a late as 1984? I know they were a thing in the 50s and 60s. But they were still doing it in the 80s?
All kinds of shite that today seems outlandish was standard.
I remember hearing the regular booms from SR-71s out over the Gulf going sonic to go spy on the Commies. It was usually in the afternoons. We'd be sitting in class and hear the SR-71's very distinctive triple boom. Two sharp small ones and then a few seconds later, a big one.
CRACK, CRACK............BOOM
This post was edited on 3/17/21 at 2:38 pm
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