After leaving the Badlands, we headed west on 90 again to the Minuteman Missile NHS. At the Visitor's Center there is a film on the cold war, how it came about and the reaction to Russia's aggressive nuclear program. I remember the 'duck and cover' drills we did at school. Hindsight says that 'duck and cover' would have been entirely ineffective against a nuclear bomb. Those drills only lasted for a couple of my early years in elementary school. In the early to mid 60's I can remember a panic rush to have fall-out shelters built in front yards, we were not a household that participated in this. Personally, after seeing the films made after the nuclear bombing in Japan, I don't think I would like to be one of the few who survived a bomb.
Entrance to the Visitor Center for the Minuteman NHS
The Visitor Center
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