When I was a a kid in kindergarten and in the first few years of being a student, every once in a while, the school bells would ring in an unusual manner, and we would be lined up and paraded outside to line up along a fence or other designated area. That was my first experience with a fire drill.
But in fifth grade a new unusual bell pattern happened and in stead of being taken outside, we were taken down to the basement, furnace room, and told to line up along a wall. That was our first bomb drill.
So for many who grew up in the 60’s and 70’s the idea of a nuclear war isn’t a new thing. Then of course, in 1983 ABC released the made for TV movie The Day After to put a nuclear conflict in to the mindset of a new generation.
And there have been several dramatizations about nuclear and conventional confrontations over the years…