CD Films

[S.A. Boggs]

Have been watching some of the Civil Defense planning films from the early 1950's to the late 1960's. Civil Defense is no longer, rolled under Jimmy Who into the FEMA agency. Wonder how Americans would react to something that many of us faced as children?
Sam

[Roadkingtrax]

Back when Russians were not to be conspired with.

Who are you kidding today?

[togor]

I remember the fallout shelter signs on buildings.

[RED]

I still have a yellow radiation detector from the 50’s. It was checked and calibrated in 1998 and again in 2013.

[blackhawknj]

Remember Conelrad ?

[S.A. Boggs]

Remember Conelrad ?

Yep, and air raid sirens as well. Locally these sirens now warn of severe impending weather as in tornado alert.
Sam

[retread12345]

REMEMBER hiding under the desks and the teacher yelling 'It's the Russians !"

[lyman]

I don't think I ever hid under a desk,
but do recall the fall out shelter signs,

not that it would matter, here in RVA there is not only the Capitol for the state, not likely a target,, but we have a Fed Mint, Air Nat Guard was here (now moved), Defense General Supply Center,
Ft Lee and Ft (now camp) Pickett just south,,,
Ft AP Hill just north,

and with DC 2 hrs north, VA Beach and the plethora of .mil bases less than 2 hrs east, think tanks about an hour west, ,Greenbriar maybe 4 hrs west,, we were right in the center of it all and likely a big glass parking lot,, if the S hit the Fan,

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we had a customer back in the early 80's
he was a bit gung ho, worked at the shipyard (2 hrs east) and bought a piece of land in Wva with a cave on it,

it was his go to (we would call it bug out now) location when the S hit the Fan,,
bought a pile of C rats, MRE's , ammo, a papered M60,, and a Blazer
his plan if the bombs started falling was to load up and haul a$$ to Wva and ride it out,

being a young guy, a bit cocky, and knowing how to read a map, I asked him how he planning on getting there,
he said with the blazer, he would put it in 4x4 mode and run up the medians if needed,

when I mentioned that as Norfolk etc was bombed , surely RVA (just up 64) would be glowing by the time he got here, not to mention C ville (Think tanks etc) ,,,

blank look..

dad told me later to shut up, he was a paying customer , just smile and nod

[S.A. Boggs]

That is/was my question of how does one get to their place of safety. I don't concern myself with what our enemies will do to us, it is what nature can do to us.
Sam

[blackhawknj]

I was in elementary school 1955-1961 in New York and Vermont, don't recall seeing any films or "duck and cover" drills. Recall the CD announcements on TV. In the early 60s there was news coverage about home fallout shelters, I knew no one who built one. There was an episode of the Original Twilight Zone "The Shelter" which dealt with the unfortunate consequences of a false alarm.