Monday, September 14, 2026
We don’t talk about nuclear weapons a lot lately, except maybe with respect to Iran. Hard to believe that there was time, during the “cold war” in the 1950s and 60s in particular, when the fear of their use was so great that people were building bomb shelters and public schools held nuclear attack drills. Kids were told to take cover under their desks or below their classroom windows so that flying glass would go over them, instead of at them, when the shockwaves from strikes miles away hit their building. As if hiding under their desks could keep them safe from the vaporizing force of nuclear explosions and radiation.
