Those of us of who came of age in the 1950s lived with the then novel threat of nuclear war. The government told us that, if the Soviet Union launched a nuclear strike, five hours or longer would elapse between our Distant Early Warning radar line detecting the Russian bombers and their arrival over American cities. During that interval, there were supposedly many steps that we could take to seek shelter and stay alive once the bombs dropped. One of those steps was supposedly evacuation of the targeted cities. When I was in 5th grade, the Atlanta Civil Defense authorities […]