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"Dave Garland" <dave.garland@wizinfo.com> wrote in message 
news:n7f6sr$q0p$1@dont-email.me...
> On 1/16/2016 7:08 PM, J. Clarke wrote:
>> In article <dg001bFagh2U1@mid.individual.net>, jkl8976@nospam.com
>> says...
>>>
>>> "Ahem A Rivet's Shot" <steveo@eircom.net> wrote in message
>>> news:20160116205742.241d8d9555de0488b9f27635@eircom.net...
>>>> On 16 Jan 2016 14:09:15 GMT
>>>> jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> We had almost as many atom bomb drills
>>>>> as fire drills in grade school during the 50s.
>>>>
>>>> The only one of those I heard of that made sense was, "Bend over,
>>>> tuck your head between your knees and kiss your arse goodbye".
>>>
>>> It was more complicated than that in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
>>
>> Are you old enough to remember those drills personally?  I am and Ahem's
>> got the right of it--they were risible.
>>
>
> There were the drills, yes. They made about as much sense as the TSA 
> "security theatre" today, although it is possible that the authorities 
> didn't realize that (at the time, there weren't many bombs, so few schools 
> would be close to epicenter). Or maybe the authorities did realize that, 
> but were going for the theatre aspect ("nothing to worry about").

Its unlikely that they would have had drills at all if they wanted
people to believe that there was nothing to worry about.