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To: Sun Tzu who wrote (96424)	4/26/2003 2:13:12 PM
From: unclewest	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

You pointing out that radiation is a major hazard (which I agree with) does not change the fact that in the 50s it was downplayed to the public. Are you kidding...This is what Americans learned in the 1950s...I can confirm it because I went to school in the 50s and remember the drills...and I helped my grandparents build a fallout shelter. post-gazette.com The heyday for bomb shelter construction in the United States was undoubtedly in the fearful 1950s when the cartoon character Bert the Turtle urged Americans to prepare for nuclear war, and Good Housekeeping advised its readers to suspend cooking and start digging. Kids learned "duck and cover" drills in their school rooms, and girls were taught how to stock shelters in their home economics classes. In 1954, the entire nation conducted a nuclear war drill, That is hardly downplaying the hazard.