Oh yes I remember the desk thing...do you remember the song for it..."Duck and Cover". So in the event of a nuclear strike we were supposed to just hunker down and cover our heads. Did any one ever anywhere think that we would survive a hit with duck and cover? My when my DMIL was a child her class was taken out to view a nuclear bomb test from a hill which was supposed to be a safe distance away. Years later she died of thyroid cancer. So did many of her contemporaries in the area where she lived and grew up. Radioactive iodine anyone? Oh how our ignorance defines us.