People that lived during the Cold War, what was it like? - eviltoast

Did you live in constant fear of being nuked? Or was it more chill most of the time?

  • JimmyBigSausage@lemm.ee
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    9 months ago

    In school there were signs for nuclear fallout shelters. Some drills, sort of like tornado drills. Discussion of the bomb was quite frequent and fatalistic. I grew up in a town that did arsenal and weapons testing that often shook the classroom windows.