" Duck and Cover " ? I remember that nonsense from the " Haunted Fifties " . Was " The Day After " cancelled ? I like what I read about this on the WORLD SOCIALIST WEB SITE just now : [ "At first glance, it would appear that the people who commissioned and released the video have absolutely no idea what they are talking about. But such a video, dealing with critical civil defense issues, could only have been produced in consultation with the highest echelons of the Pentagon and the US government. Its absurdity is a product not of ignorance, but of deception. Its aim is to acclimate the public to the idea of nuclear war, while hiding its horrifying reality. A nuclear attack on New York City would be part of a full-scale thermonuclear exchange, involving the launching of thousands of warheads at cities and infrastructure throughout the United States and the world. Such an event would make 9/11 seem minuscule in comparison. The city and its environs would be struck by multiple thermonuclear warheads, each with a yield of over one hundred times the ' Fat Man' nuclear weapon that destroyed Hiroshima." ]