Michigan Air National Guard lands jets, takes off from US highway in military firstThe interstate highway system was originally designed and built for that purpose.
Every so often there has to be so many miles of straight highway for just that purpose.
The system was born during the cold war.
Sometimes in old movies you'll see a placard on a wall indicating that building is a fall out shelter.
We took the threat of attack very serious.
Unless you had periodic duck and cover drills in school like a fire drill, you'll never understand.
As I recall the Cuban Missile Crisis might have been the scariest time for children.
As I recall the Cuban Missile Crisis might have been the scariest time for children
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I was a sophomore in high school. It was a very sobering time. I recall the intense monitoring to see what Russia would do about the blockade when that ship got there. It was a big relief when they blinked.
Our school gym's basement was a designated fallout shelter. We lived across the street. Our school didn't do duck and cover-rural community and unlikely to be within the blast area where that was needed.
However, we did do tornado drills, and I suspect that was actually the same as we would have done for a nuke attack-but TPTB avoided that fear - provoking scenario.
Our 8th grade history teacher was also the local teacher of the civil defense class. He spent about 2 weeks teaching us how to use a Geiger counter, what would be safe to eat, etc. The message that as long as we were 25 miles away from the blast, had shelter to avoid radiation, and rations/preparations, we could survive.
After 2 weeks, it is safe to go out for a quick restock of necessities, but better if you don't have to.
I watched some interviews of people that survived the the attack on Japan. One lady's mom was killed, but somehow she survived. Our government used to have a national civil defense strategy.
Now they have continuity of government. Accommodations for all the essential Government dudes/dudettes - nothing for us peons. Russia still has civil defense for it's people - they did a drill back when it was predicted that HRC would win.