When I was a kid we had to bring Metrecal cookies to school on the first day. They put our name on them and they were stored in the fallout shelter in the basement. We would get them back on the last day of school.
Grade school had a lot of duck and cover drills and air raid drills. We had air raid drills even when I was in high school.
I remember laying in bed at night and hearing the fighters power up their engines and take off and go supersonic right away.
We would go to the beach and see the Soviet "trawler" spy ships off shore.
I guess the point is that we had a civil defense plan. Maybe it's time they start thinking about one, and what happened in Hawaii probably gave planners some good ideas.
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