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Our Krazy Kulture Presents: DUCK AND COVER

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FROM WIKIPEDIA:
The United States monopoly on nuclear weapons was broken in 1949 when the Soviet Union tested its first nuclear device, and many in the government and public perceived that the United States was more vulnerable than it ever had been before. Duck and cover exercises had quickly become a part of Civil Defense drills that every American citizen, from kids to the elderly, practiced so as to be ready in the event of nuclear war. In 1950, during the first big Civil Defense push of the Cold War, the movie Duck and Cover was produced (by the Federal Civil Defense Administration) for school showings in 1951. At the time, it was believed the main dangers of a Hiroshima-type nuclear blast was mainly heat and blast damage: radioactive fallout itself was not clearly identified until 1954 after the Castle Bravo weapons test in the Marshall Islands caused sickness and death in Japanese fishermen on the fishing vessel the Lucky Dragon.
DUCK AND COVER IN THE POPULAR MEDIA:
-The computer game Fallout made fun of the idea behind Duck and Cover. As the game has a large cult following, the idea of the unusefulness of the duck and cover scheme got another boost in the 1990s.
-In the computer game Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2, Soviet premier Romanov uses his pet box turtle, "Uncle Sam", to make fun of the duck and cover cartoons.
-In the South Park episode "Volcano" residents are advised to duck and cover in order to survive a lava flow, this is demonstrated with an educational movie where the method results in the lava flowing over the person, leaving him unharmed. Needless to say, this didn't work as well when later attempted.
-Duck and Cover is also the name of a clothing brand popular with young people.
-In the West Wing episode "Duck and Cover", the possibility of a nuclear explosion in California is explored.
-The movie The Iron Giant had a parody of a Duck and Cover educational video. Later, when a nuclear missile is launched at a town, the duck and cover strategy is suggested. It is rebuked with "there's no way to survive this, you idiot!"
-The "Weird Al" Yankovic song "Christmas at Ground Zero" (song about nuclear annihilation on Christmas Day) contains the lyric "I'll duck and cover with my Yuletide lover underneath the mistletoe". The music video for this song also features a lot of footage borrowed from the Duck and Cover film.

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