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History of Nuclear Defense - Surviving Atomic Attack (2-DVD Set)

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im not sure the company that threw this boring and very odd video think people watch them. it had a lot of topics that had nothing to do with anything. save your money and keep searching around.there are alot of good ones, but hard to find.

It must have been terrifying to go to school and grow up in the 50s. Between air raid drills and worries about the Soviet Union, I am so glad I grew up in more modern times.

I got a good sense of why my parents were so worried about things when i was growing up and these films made me really feel like I was back in the Cold War era in a way that the History Channel doesn't.

My favorite scene was MarArthur comming back from Korea

One of my pet peaves with so many documentaries out there is that the narration overshadows the real footage that I've paid to watch.

I often don't know what background or bias the commentator has and when he or she talks over the film clips it drives me crazy.

That's why I liked his documentary - which is mostly clips of old films about what to do if the Russians attacked us with nukes.

You get to see all of the footage and put it into your own context and experience. It trusts me to think for myself.

That said, I was surprised at how people back in the 1950s seemed to think that school desks would protect them from a nuclear bomb.

We've come a long way baby.

This DVD set astounded me. It made me realize just how far we have come with our understanding of the world and little we knew only 50 years ago. The premise of these clips is that back in the 1950s the goverenment was worried that we were about to be nuked by the Russians and they didn't want people to panic. So, they told people in these films that if they hid under desks or in their basements that they would be able to survive atomic attack. Of course we now know that that is ridiculous, but it's interesting to think that people really believe this stuff back then. It sort of explains how the cold war got to happen for so long.