Duck and Cover

Here is the Duck and Cover instructional video from the 1950's, telling people what to do in the case of a nuclear attack on the United States:



After watching Duck and Cover in class, students were surprised with their own atomic bomb drill. When the alarm sounded, they quickly got under their desks to protect themselves:





During the 1950's and 60's, a number of families built fallout shelters to protect them in the case of a nuclear attack from the Soviet Union. This video shows what those shelters were like: