The Age of Nuclear Anxiety
As schools routinely held “duck-and-cover” drills to prepare for possible Soviet attacks, children directly experienced the anxiety and insecurity of the 1950s nuclear arms race. The federal government distributed this pamphlet about how to protect oneself from an atomic attack. How effective do you think the strategy pictured here would be in a nuclear attack? Photo: Archive Photos/Getty Images; Pamphlet: Lynn Historical Society.