In the July 14 Berkshire Eagle, there was an interesting article on nuclear bombs. The only two ever used in war were dropped by the United States in August 1945 on Japan which brought an end to WW II ...

Like most baby boomers in America, I was raised in the thick soup of post-World War II paranoia known as the Cold War. Each year at St. Euphrasia Elementary School in Granada Hills, California, we ...

In 1951, the Astoria School System in New York City produced a documentary called “Duck and Cover: Bert the Turtle.” The objective was not only to raise awareness of the imminent threat of a potential ...

On March 1st CONELRAD, the website devoted to Cold War popular culture, launched a campaign to get the 1951 Civil Defense film “Duck and Cover”into the Library of Congress’s National Film Registry.

"There is no such thing as paranoia. Your worst fears can come true at any moment." — the late journalist and author Hunter S. Thompson With nuclear war saber-rattling today from Russia, China, Iran, ...

Americans of a certain age remember things about their youth—Bert the Turtle and the ditty “Duck and Cover” (1951), Pat Frank’s apocalyptic novel Alas, Babylon (1959), and Sidney Lumet’s film Fail ...