Today's events vs the Cuban missile crisis

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Wags wrote:
I remember being much more freaked about about the Cuban crisis. Likely from all the air raid drills, as if getting under a school desk was going to protect against an atomic bomb.

I was just a kid during the Cuban crisis, but the fallout shelter drills and films about duck and cover seemed to go on for years after.
I remember learning how effective different materials were at blocking radiation and how you needed to stock your backyard underground bunker.
And yes, getting under your desk, what a joke.
Even then, as a kid, I remember thinking that the best place to be in the event of an all out nuclear war was ground zero of the first bomb.