Growing up in the 1980s, I watched my dad and grandpa attempt to build a bomb shelter in our Dallas, Texas backyard.
Having just watched “The Day After”, a low-budget (but effective) fictional depiction of a nuclear apocalypse in the American heartland, they endeavored to protect the family from the Soviet nuclear threat.
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