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As an elementary school kid in the 1980s we did NOT have those stupid duck-and-cover drills where we practiced getting under our desks in case of nuclear war, because we all watched The Day After and we knew that a desk wasn't going to save us.
Speak for yourself. We had those drills and I remember thinking it was stupid as hell to hide under the desk.
They stopped soon after the Challenger explosion.
Must be regional. By Challenger I was already out of high school, and the duck-and-cover thing had been "before my time" all my life. IOW it never touched my life growing up in the '70s. I always knew it as a relic from back in the days when things were in black and white.
The practice was revived during the height of the Cold War in the 1980s in some school districts.