Does anyone remember the teacher pulling down the blinds and telling us to hide under our desks in case of a nuclear strike?
Sep 24, 2012 06:03:16 #
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.
I remember that they used to have us do some stretching exercizes before those drills too. That way, it was easy to place your head between your knees and kiss your ass goodbye if there was a bright flash too. LOL. All those under the desk or hide your head maneuvers were useless if there was really a nuclear attack.
Sep 24, 2012 06:46:08 #
Sep 24, 2012 06:46:10 #
traveler90712 wrote:
Yep, remember that, duck and cover.
Remember carrying a disometer (?) in the service too!
Remember carrying a disometer (?) in the service too!
I think you mean a dosimeter, small pencil size device to measure radiation
Sep 24, 2012 07:04:14 #
Not entirely useless, as it depends upon how far away one is from the hypocentre, and the strength of the explosion. Surviving the initial blast past a certain distance would change dramatically if for example you dropped into a ditch. Sure if you are within a few miles of a 10+ mt device, good luck, though even their something as sturdy as a subway tunnel would likely change the percentages by a noticeable amount. I seem to recall that one of either the Castle Bravo or Ivy Mike test was viewed from a bunker at about the 8,000 foot mark, but don't hold me to it until I do a little searching. see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNcQX033V_M for a propaganda film showing the detonation of Ivy Mike from a naval ship.
Sep 24, 2012 07:09:21 #
bull drink water wrote:
they finally admitted that the reason was so that whoever was left would find the bodies neatly piled in one place.
That's what I always understood and we were told to hold our large world-atlases over our heads and I know I hoped the bomb would drop during geography lesson so that I would have it readily to hand.
Sep 24, 2012 07:14:17 #
rayford2
Loc: New Bethlehem, PA
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
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
In our school we were absolutely safe by occupying the basement (school teachers said so).
Us kids had the idea that an A bomb would hit the ground, not explode 10,000 feet in the air.
What a comforting fact that was to know.
Sep 24, 2012 07:19:43 #
rayford2
Loc: New Bethlehem, PA
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.
We saw one of those A bomb preventive movies where a sailor, laying down in a ditch, should cover his head with the flap of his shirt hanging behind his neck. I can only guess what the WAVES used.
Sep 24, 2012 07:23:42 #
rayford2
Loc: New Bethlehem, PA
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......
The movies we saw explicitly forbade you to look at a nuclear blast, unless you were wearing nuclear glasses.
Sep 24, 2012 07:31:14 #
Cragzop
Loc: NYC
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.
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 remember my friend Jeremy Goldberg saying as we lined up in the hall "We're 6 miles away from ground zero (Manhattan) we're gonna be vaporized!"
Sep 24, 2012 07:31:37 #
I attended public schools in Ft. Lauderdale during the 50's, and I never remember participating in any "duck & cover, bomb attack" drills; only regular fire drills, where we went outside for a few minutes and then came back in.
We never got under any desks. We were never scared by any bombing threats.
We never got under any desks. We were never scared by any bombing threats.
Sep 24, 2012 07:33:40 #
Millismote wrote:
I think you mean a dosimeter, small pencil size device to measure radiation
traveler90712 wrote:
Yep, remember that, duck and cover.
Remember carrying a disometer (?) in the service too!
Remember carrying a disometer (?) in the service too!
I think you mean a dosimeter, small pencil size device to measure radiation
Never said I could spell! Thanks!
Sep 24, 2012 07:35:15 #
I remeber the air raid drills we ha in 1942 and '43 - we did hide under the desks. And, the Air Raid Warden knocking on your door at night if he saw any light in your house - we all had light proof air raid curtains - who else remebers that?
Sep 24, 2012 07:55:55 #
rayford2
Loc: New Bethlehem, PA
traveler90712 wrote:
Never said I could spell! Thanks!
Millismote wrote:
I think you mean a dosimeter, small pencil size device to measure radiation
traveler90712 wrote:
Yep, remember that, duck and cover.
Remember carrying a disometer (?) in the service too!
Remember carrying a disometer (?) in the service too!
I think you mean a dosimeter, small pencil size device to measure radiation
Never said I could spell! Thanks!
Sometimes it was called a Glowmeter.
Sep 24, 2012 08:04:32 #
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.
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.
The propaganda film has been captured on YouTube. A turtle is the main protagonist.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cJ4GjE9yzI
Sep 24, 2012 08:29:35 #
I always remembered one as a Civil Defense drill & the other as a Tornado drill, don't remember which was which though ...Plus I remember the Fire drills as well
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