People experienced living in fear of being attacked with nuclear bombs.
Schools constructed bomb shelters and carried bomb drills to prepare students to duck-and-cover in order to protect themselves from a nuclear bomb explosion.
Some families raised backyard fallout shelters.
Cold war issues appeared in films, theatre, television, and popular fiction.
The US government's decision to develop a hydrogen bomb, first tested in 1952, committed the United States to an ever-escalating arms race with the Soviet Union.
