Posted on 03/21/2006 12:38:10 PM PST by neverdem
And the larger medical kits contained a pharmacy sized bottle of phenobarbital, a very popular "downer" from the '60s.
Regards,
GtG
They must not have distributed those at my school, I only remember the crackers ;>).
Headline: Brooklyn Bridge Houses '50s Survival Stash
From Story:
[...]
Many of the cardboard boxes discovered last week in the bridge vault were ink-stamped with two especially significant years in cold-war history: 1957, when the Soviets launched the Sputnik satellite, and 1962, when the Cuban missile crisis seemed to bring the world to the precipice of nuclear destruction.
Some boxes bear labels from the Office of Civil Defense, a unit of the Pentagon that coordinated domestic preparedness in the early 1960's.
BTW, note how the Cuban missile crisis only seemed to bring the world to the precipice of nuclear destruction.
The provisions were probably comforting but would likely have been useless in the case of a nuclear attack, said Graham Allison, a former assistant secretary of defense who teaches at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard.
No comment.
Good reading
Good catch! What did they know and when did they know it?!!
What did they know and when did they know it?!!
LOL!
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