I remember being terrified as a kid when the government started opening up the fallout shelters.
The cold war was a definite cloud over what were otherwise less complicated, family oriented period of history.
Yep, we had our nightmares, just like the kids since those times.
I can remember the nuclear bomb drills in gradeschool, climbing under the desks. But I also remember watching in awe as the Mercury program put a US astronaut into space. I had access to a magazine called “Space”...and I read every issue from cover to cover, over and over.
We were amazed when TV showed up; my grandfather couldn’t understand why anyone would want to look at a little round window on a box, just to see the face of the news guy. Got all the news he needed from the radio. That was plenty of technology for him.
Yep, the Cold War was frightening, but we didn’t let it stand in the way of running barefoot through the wildflowers, or building snow forts, or waving a little American flag at the annual Labor Day Parade.