This early what-to-do-when-they-nuke-you short from the government shows the same sort of uncomprehending attitude that became enshrined in DUCK AND COVER. I grew up in this era. I was 8 when the Cuban Missile Crisis occurred, and we knew that if they dropped the Bomb, we were done for.
Still, they didn't know that when they made this short, and they chose the best man in America to narrate it: Edward R. Murrow. Murrow was a man who knew how to keep his head in a crisis. His was the voice broadcasting from London during the Battle of Britain, when the Luftwaffe might unload bombs on the studio he was broadcasting from. The damage might not be as vast as a nuclear bomb, but he would be just as dead. So when he told us things, we believed he meant them.... even if he was wrong.
Still, they didn't know that when they made this short, and they chose the best man in America to narrate it: Edward R. Murrow. Murrow was a man who knew how to keep his head in a crisis. His was the voice broadcasting from London during the Battle of Britain, when the Luftwaffe might unload bombs on the studio he was broadcasting from. The damage might not be as vast as a nuclear bomb, but he would be just as dead. So when he told us things, we believed he meant them.... even if he was wrong.