Great video, thanks for sharing. Letterman had only been doing his late night show for about a month when this was aired; it's interesting to see how he interviewed his guests early on...
Yep. 72 now. I remember the drills and getting under the school desk. I remember at recess looking up at the sky when I heard a air plane and wondering what kind of plane that was and if it was a bad plane with a bomb. July 7 2020 Mr.rafferty passed away. He was born in 1947. NYT has obituary July 9 2020.
I'm a 47 baby also. I feel the clock ticking. The duck & cover drills in Oklahoma were masked as tornado drills. Made more sense (as were the backyard bomb shelters : sold as tornado/bomb shelters). Not worth a damn for Nukes , but great for twisters.
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What the producers do not tell you that until the invention of fusion bombs, these are pretty valid recommendations. Device designers can adjust the effect they want through changing parameters.
Depending on where you are, Duck and Cover isn't bad advice whatsoever. Especially if you're in a building that can absorb a lot of the radiation. Again, it depends on where you are in proximity to the blast but it definitely will increase your survival chances.
So being in an atomic attack is no more dangerous than slipping and falling on a bar of soap while taking a shower? I really liked David Letterman’s late night show on NBC because he had offbeat or unconventional segments that wouldn’t appear on The Tonight Show, or any other late night show of that period.
The funny part is that, the films are actually quite accurate, just presented in a way that makes them seem asinine. The military videos are especially accurate. The concept of "duck-and-cover" is not that it would save you from the blast, but rather that it would protect you from the thermal wave, which only affects line-of-sight objects, as you can see in many atomic test videos.
The Duck and Cover film I would think at that time most people really did not know how severe an A Bomb attack would be for real. Most people at that time might not have seen how serious the blasts were in Japan at that time. But also to make things too simple for children so they don't become so scared the way adults would have been at that time
