My dad was an air traffic controller with the USAF during this time. I can remember being at school and the base having alerts and seeing the B-47s and B-52s taking off. Even then seeing the base launch its aircraft always scared the schoolkids because the school would hold its air raid drill, the famous duck under your school desk and it will protect you from the A-bomb...then would come the Civil Defense Drill where the kids were led into the air raid shelters and we get to set on the bunks for a couple of hours.
Say what you will about the poor acting...the film caught the background of fear, nobody wanted to see the bombs go off and MADD was all too real.
Besides! It was the 1950s...what were you expecting, Mel Gibson?
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The reason that the American Army does so well in wartime, is that war is chaos, and the American Army practices chaos on a daily basis.
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