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Did the government know Duck and Cover wouldn't save you from a nuclear bomb?

If you grew up in America between 1950 and 1990, you remember the drills. The siren. The desk. Curling into a ball and waiting for a flash that never came.

For forty years, American children practiced for nuclear war. Millions of them. Every week. In every school.

But here's what you were never told: by 1955, internal government documents acknowledged that civil defense measures were "inadequate for thermonuclear weapons." They knew. And they never told you.

This documentary tells the complete story of Duck and Cover — not just the film, but the experience. What it was like to grow up under the mushroom cloud. What children understood that adults wouldn't say out loud. And what declassified documents finally revealed about the drills you did as a child.

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If you did those drills, this was your story.
If you didn't, this is your history.

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SOURCES & ARCHIVAL:
"Duck and Cover" (1952) — Federal Civil Defense Administration
Declassified Civil Defense documents — National Archives
Castle Bravo footage — Atomic Energy Commission
Cuban Missile Crisis news broadcasts — Various networks

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NEXT EPISODE: "Gun Thy Neighbor" — In 1961, Americans asked: Would you shoot your neighbor to save your family? The moral crisis that tore America apart.

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Growing Up Under the Mushroom Cloud