If, like me, you grew up in the 1960s, then you have stark memories of the real possibility of nuclear war. The Cuban missile crisis in 1962 was probably, as far as we know anyway, the closest we ever came to nuclear war. As kids in grammar school, we used to have bomb drills, most of which involved us either hiding under our desks or moving to the school basement. As if that would protect us from a nuclear detonation. I also remember the apartment buildings that line the boardwalk in the Beach 120s having those civil defense signs that indicated they were “fallout shelters.”
Thankfully, those fears were buried for many decades but have recently begun to resurface with Putin’s war on Ukraine. The specter of nuclear war has once again