Did you live in constant fear of being nuked? Or was it more chill most of the time?
Born early 70s. Depends where you lived I think
If you lived in a country full of gun-owning shitebag cowards, yeah, people are scared of their own shadows
In other countries it was more “Meh”
In school there were signs for nuclear fallout shelters. Some drills, sort of like tornado drills. Discussion of the bomb was quite frequent and fatalistic. I grew up in a town that did arsenal and weapons testing that often shook the classroom windows.
When the apocalypse is hanging above your head, you tend to appreciate life while it lasts.
Also, music was better.
That’s why that entire generation did fuck all for climate change! The ol’ I was raised this way and turned out fine!
And climate change will be the reason the rest of you will do fuck all about every other problem.
There’a a whole generation of people who see climate change as a threat on par with nuclear war, and hence can justify any level of action or focus necessary so long as it’s related to climate change.
Less of a fear that we would get nuked and more of a fear that Reagan would do something colossally stupid.
