The fallout shelter
 
Could this be where Emily’s Dad got the idea to build a fallout shelter? The picture above was one of many circulating around in the mid-fifties during the cold war.  A popular lesson in school was duck and cover. (see below)
Duck and cover
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
Duck and Cover was a method of personal protection against the effects of a nuclear detonation which the United States government taught to generations of United States school children from the late 1940s into the 1980s. This was supposed to protect them in the event of an unexpected nuclear attack which, they were told, could come at any time without warning. Immediately after they saw a flash, they had to stop what they were doing and get on the ground under some cover – such as a table, or at least next to a wall – and assume fetal position, lying face down and covering their heads with their hands.[1]
Critics have said that this training would be of little, if any, help in the event of thermonuclear war, and had little effect other than promoting a state of unease and paranoia.
This is a civil defense woman demonstrating things to put in your fallout shelter.
 
Ah...home sweet home...
Well, so how we have evolved since those days right? I hear talking heads on tv discuss the use of “tactical nuclear weapons on Iran.” I am reminded that we still have some 26,000 nuclear warheads and we have a crazy man in the whitehouse. Diplomacy isn’t even considered in their dangerous game. If you pray...pray for peace. If you work...work for peace...if you march...march for peace. No more troops, no more money for war, no more private companies making money from war. NO MORE WAR. So who really thinks the patriarchy is working?
until next time kids...
peace & love from somewhere in a hole in the ground in Tennessee,
val
photos: us military archives/military.com
 
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