Hiding Under Desks During Cold War. In primary school we were taught to duck and cover for protection. After all if the explosion were far enough away to not immediately damage the room before kids could hide under their desks there would probably be enough time to get into the hallway.
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Sadly our national nuclear strategy is now showing the same futility. By the early 1950s schools across the united states were training students to dive under their desks and cover their heads. Wasn t there general knowledge of radiation and how ineffective a wooden deal would be.
The thought of a group of 6 year olds being instructed to throw books at a man armed with an ar 15 is exceedingly dark and has more than one writer invoking the duck and cover era of school civil.
But even as children hiding under wooden desks we recognized the inadequacies of this strategy. Duck and cover is a method of personal protection against the effects of a nuclear explosion. The civilian defense measures taken during the cold war overlooked some very fundamental aspects of a nuclear war. It wasn t as real as shootings in the schools that have happened in recent years or the 9 11 attacks that were on tv constantly for weeks.
