Part one of term paper
I can remember as a child in the 1950’s and early sixties, the air-raid sirens, and everyone getting under their desk, or going to the ground floor of the school building and curling up with our faces against the wall. It was a game. It was like a fire drill, a chance to get out for a few minutes, out of our studies, out of our classrooms. ...

Part two of term paper
... bomb. They told us we had to be behind a lead shield. Now, who had a lead shield? They told us to go underground, but most of us could not afford a bomb shelter. I remember movies showing soldiers in nuclear test areas. The blast and the wind and the mushroom shaped cloud. I remember news reels at the movie theater about the destruction in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. As a child, I do not really recall feeling threatened by this. I do not remember being disturbed. Perhaps my parents did an especi ...