This AV Club timeline offers several great examples, from "The Manchurian Candidate" to "Dr. These are valuable services in any time frame, but the tensions constantly playing in your mind as you participated must have been palpable.Īs always, pop culture both reflected and refracted societal anxieties back at citizens as a way of processing them. They showed educational films, offered first aid courses, and provided strategies to patrons on how best to survive in the event of nuclear war. That's a long time to brace for potential impact, both as individuals and as a society.ĭuring this time, libraries helped to train and prepare people as best they could with available civil defense information. The Cold War ebbed and flowed in terms of tension, but it lasted from the end of World War II until the early 1990s and the eventual fall of the Soviet Union.
Many Americans thought nuclear war could break out at any moment. Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders.
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