re: For people born before 1992, how close was your hometown to a direct Soviet ICBM strike?

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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?

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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