From the literature we see on the internet from the Cold War era, you’d think that everyone had a backyard fallout shelter ready to go in case the Soviets attacked. The truth is that, in 1962, only 1.4% of Americans actually did. As a child of that era, I recall assuming that nuclear armageddon could come at any time, and there was nothing we could do about it.
What did the general population of adults of the time think about the nuclear threat? Michigan State University surveyed 3,514 adults in the early ’60s about their…The post How Americans of the 1960s Really Felt About Nuclear Fallout Shelters appeared first on FeedBox.