Of course, "duck and cover" wouldn't save anybody from an A-bomb. I think the idea was to save us all from flash-blindness and the broken glass of the shockwave (because of course it was a 60s school, and so mostly glass).
So while I'm not entirely sure Jack would hold on to that level of anti-Soviet paranoia that far into his adult life, he would certainly have grown up with that...
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Date: 2014-07-06 01:51 am (UTC)Of course, "duck and cover" wouldn't save anybody from an A-bomb. I think the idea was to save us all from flash-blindness and the broken glass of the shockwave (because of course it was a 60s school, and so mostly glass).
So while I'm not entirely sure Jack would hold on to that level of anti-Soviet paranoia that far into his adult life, he would certainly have grown up with that...