1961 Kennedy urges Americans to build bomb sheltersY2K anyone?
President John F. Kennedy, speaking on civil defense, advises American families to build bomb shelters to protect them from atomic fallout in the event of a nuclear exchange with the Soviet Union. Kennedy also assured the public that the U.S. civil defense program would soon begin providing such protection for every American.
This is funny, really. So what if you have a bomb shelter. What are you going to do after it's all over? Crawl out into an uninhabitable, scorched, barren, radioactive, unpopulated wasteland?
Some nirvana that would be.
Take special note of the last part:
"...the U.S. civil defense program would soon begin providing such protection for every American."
Yup. Let the government take care of you and all will be just swell.
No comments:
Post a Comment