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 ...

It's been more than a half century since America's grade school children learned how to properly fear the nuclear bomb — and protect themselves from it — back in the dark daze of the Cold War.

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.

Growing up in the latter stages of the Cold War, my generation didn't live with the sense of menace and the Bert the Turtle duck-and-cover drills baby boomers endured, but both cohorts were blessed by ...