On "Duck and Cover"

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It's been fashionable for a while now to dump on this old Civil Defense propaganda educational film, and in some ways it is naive and uninformed by today's standards. (There's a lot that no one, even the military, knew about the Bomb back then.) But it should be remembered that when it was made, back in 1950, the Reds had perhaps a few dozen bombs, total, and they probably would have been delivered by big slow bombers. Those of us growing up thirty-odd years later, when there were enough MIRVs to hit every silo, base and major city (and most of the small ones) and blot out the sun, faced a very different situation.