SO FAR AS could be officially determined, only about 100 people died when the atomic bomb fell on New York City on Wednesday morning the 28th of November 1951. These luckless souls perished on the … ...

Our government once expected school children to believe that dropping to the floor and putting our heads under our desks would save us during a nuclear war.

In 1951, the Astoria School System in New York City produced a documentary called “Duck and Cover: Bert the Turtle.” The objective was not only to raise awareness of the imminent threat of a ...

The official 1951 United States civil defense film, Duck and Cover. Intended primarily for children, it portrays the act of ducking and covering by Bert the Turtle.

And so New York City waited for World War III. According to the master plan, a three-minute cry from Wallander’s commandeered sirens would mean that an atomic bomb was expected to fall in about ...