People Don't Think Hard Enough About What Nuclear War Is and What It Would Mean
(www.strategic-culture.org)
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I think that media from TV shows, to movies to video games has lead people to believe that they'll be the ones to survive (obviously because everyone's the hero in their own story).
In addition, we've been so inundated with post apocalypse fiction that many people have become jaded to it. The fear that people had about it in the 50's has completely dissolved and is even routinely mocked now.
...valid observation, nicely stated and framed....