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"Duck and cover" is a method of personal protection against the effects of a nuclear explosion. Ducking and covering is useful in offering a degree of protection to personnel located outside the radius of the nuclear fireball but still within sufficient range of the nuclear explosion that standing upright and uncovered is likely to ...
Duck and cover, preparedness measure in the United States designed to be a civil-defense response in case of a nuclear attack. The procedure was practiced in the 1950s and ’60s, during the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies following World War II.
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In 1951, the FCDA hired Archer Productions, a New York City ad agency, to create a film that could be shown in schools to educate children about how to protect themselves in the case of atomic attack. The resulting film, Duck and Cover, was filmed at a school in Astoria, Queens, and alternated animation with images of students and adults practicing...
Today’s viewers may well react negatively to Duck and Coverand its jarringly pleasant, light tone. But in the early ‘50s, most Americans knew little about what actually happened when an atomic bomb exploded, and the idea was to warn, but not frighten, the school children taking part in the drills. Historian JoAnne Brownwrites of how teachers in Det...
By the early 1960s, the U.S.-Soviet arms race had heated up to the point that duck and cover came to look like an even more inadequate response to the nuclear threat. In 1961, the Soviets exploded a 58-megaton bombdubbed “Czar Bomba,” which had a force equivalent to more than 50 million tons of TNT—more than all the explosives used in World War II....
Another key criticism of duck and cover focused on the intent behind it: what many people saw as the government’s way of sanitizing nuclear weapons and making people complacent and accepting of the new status quo. In fact, as historian Dee Garrison has argued, students’ responses to civil defense drills in schools would later fuel antiwar and antin...
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24 de dic. de 2008 · Full length version of the 1951 civil defense film.
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29 de sept. de 2018 · The ‘Duck and Cover’ propaganda movie was probably one of the most famous of all the pieces of propaganda during the early stages of the cold war So why did the government bother with all of these drills and fallout shelters into the 70s, when they were clearly obsolete by the mid-50s?
traducir DUCK AND COVER: esconderse, alejarse, quedar lejos. Más información en el diccionario inglés-español.
12 de sept. de 2008 · Duck and Cover was a social guidance film produced in 1951 by the United States federal government's Civil Defense branch shortly after the Soviet Union began nuclear testing.
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