![]() Througout the 1950’s and early 1960’s, it was popular to build a “fallout shelter” for your home to protect you from the dangers of radiation after an atomic attack. Surviving Under Atomic AttackĤ Why “Duck and Cover”? At the time, it was believed the main dangers of a Hiroshima-type nuclear blast were from heat and blast damage: radioactive fallout itself was not clearly identified until 1954, after the Castle Bravo nuclear-weapon test in the Marshall Islands caused sickness and death in Japanese fishermen on the Lucky Dragon fishing vessel. In 1950, during the first big Civil Defense push of the Cold War the movie Duck and Cover was produced (by the Federal Civil Defense Administration) for school showings in Surviving Under Atomic Attack was created for adult audiences. ![]() Duck-and-cover exercises quickly became a part of Civil Defense drills that every American citizen, from children to the elderly, practiced so as to be ready in the event of nuclear war. Presentation on theme: "Civil Defense and Nuclear Hysteria in the 1950’s"- Presentation transcript:ġ Civil Defense and Nuclear Hysteria in the 1950’sĭuck and Cover Civil Defense and Nuclear Hysteria in the 1950’sĢ The Nuclear Age Begins The United States' monopoly on nuclear weapons was broken in 1949 when the Soviet Union tested its first nuclear device, and many in the government and public perceived that the United States was more vulnerable than it ever had been before. ![]()
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