Does anyone remember the teacher pulling down the blinds and telling us to hide under our desks in case of a nuclear strike? This was part of the old Civil Defense Program. Now we have...

handgunner Loc: Windsor Locks, Connecticut

This was part of the old Civil Defense Program. Now we have Home Land Security. They tell us to bury our heads in the sand.

sarge69 Loc: Ft Myers, FL

Ours was to get in the hall and hug the wall on the side the teacher told us to.

BTW - A strike in a target city would not leave much time for a teacher to pull down the blinds or get students into the hall way don't you think ?

Sarge69

handgunner Loc: Windsor Locks, Connecticut

sarge69 wrote:

Ours was to get in the hall and hug the wall on the side the teacher told us to.

BTW - A strike in a target city would not leave much time for a teacher to pull down the blinds or get students into the hall way don't you think ?

Sarge69

NO CHIT!!

:thumbup:

handgunner Loc: Windsor Locks, Connecticut

handgunner wrote:

sarge69 wrote:

Ours was to get in the hall and hug the wall on the side the teacher told us to.

BTW - A strike in a target city would not leave much time for a teacher to pull down the blinds or get students into the hall way don't you think ?

Sarge69

NO CHIT!!

:thumbup:

We believe what the government tells us to believe. (I don't see a Big Brother Smiley?)

Beowulf Loc: Aquidneck Island, RI

For children in school in the late '40s through the early '50s the "duck and cover" was more a psychological experiment for curbing panic.

Public safety authorities knew full well that the duck and cover was useless as a means of self-preservation, but children and their parents needed some reassuring.

Mac Loc: Pittsburgh, Philadelphia now Hernando Co. Fl.

I remember doing the under the desk thing and the hallway thing that Sarge69 mentioned. I also remember being told that if we were outside when an atom bomb hit, to lay face down in a ditch and cover our ears.

micro Loc: Texas

handgunner wrote:

sarge69 wrote:

Ours was to get in the hall and hug the wall on the side the teacher told us to.

BTW - A strike in a target city would not leave much time for a teacher to pull down the blinds or get students into the hall way don't you think ?

Sarge69

NO CHIT!!

:thumbup:

We believe what the government tells us to believe. (I don't see a Big Brother Smiley?)

I recall drills, hiding under my desk and others in the hallway away from doorways & windows. Luckly the necular strike never came!

sarge69 Loc: Ft Myers, FL

Mac wrote:

I remember doing the under the desk thing and the hallway thing that Sarge69 mentioned. I also remember being told that if we were outside when an atom bomb hit, to lay face down in a ditch and cover our ears.

A guy in the tenament we lived in used to tell everyone ' Bend over, put your head between your knees and kiss your a@@ goodbye.

Sarge69

BW326 Loc: Boynton Beach, Florida

mtmello wrote:

For children in school in the late '40s through the early '50s the "duck and cover" was more a psychological experiment for curbing panic.

Public safety authorities knew full well that the duck and cover was useless as a means of self-preservation, but children and their parents needed some reassuring.

I pretty much agree with that as well. If you look back at all the old sci-fi and disaster movies from that era, the government's response (in the scripts) were almost always as much concerned with how to ameliorate public panic as they were with how to deal with the monster/disaster/aliens. It was art trying to imitate real life.

tschmath Loc: Los Angeles

micro wrote:

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traveler90712 Loc: Lake Worth, Fl.

Yep, remember that, duck and cover.
Remember carrying a disometer (?) in the service too!

RixPix Loc: Miami, Florida

handgunner wrote:

This was part of the old Civil Defense Program. Now we have Home Land Security. They tell us to bury our heads in the sand.

In elementary school were were marched two blocks down the street to the Lutheran Church basement. The chuch was a limestone and granite Gothic monster with a basement and a sub-basement. We were sequestered in the sub-basement for about 15 minutes before we returned to the school.

hlmichel Loc: New Hope, Minnesota

In case of a strike, would you be safer turning the blinds up to close them or down to close them. I know up let's in less light......

BW326 Loc: Boynton Beach, Florida

hlmichel wrote:

In case of a strike, would you be safer turning the blinds up to close them or down to close them. I know up let's in less light......

Actually a very good question and I would agree with you that 'blinds up' would would be the preferred method. It does however, beg the question of,
"How would blinds up or down' react to the 100 megaton shockwave that would be following shortly after the visible light wave."
I must confess, I don't have the proper background in the physical sciences to answer that question. Possibly, one of the UHH members with a more advanced degree could help us?

P.S. Love your avatar. It reminds of what the look on my face would be experiencing the first shockwave.

bull drink water Loc: pontiac mi.

they finally admitted that the reason was so that whoever was left would find the bodies neatly piled in one place.