[blam]

"We had to dive under our school desks in the 50s when the threat was thousands of nukes going off all over the US. Many of those nukes would have been city busters, 20 megatons or more."

Boy! Those were the days, huh?

[Night Hides Not]

Boy! Those were the days, huh?

We always knew when it was 12 noon in our neighborhood. That's when an air raid siren (50 yards from my house) went off every day, five days a week (I don't recall it being tested on weekends), for as long as I lived there (10 years).

You could set your watch to the darn thing.