I was too little to be really scared, but we did do those duck and cover drills in school like you may have seen in old black and white footage. If we happened to be in the hall when the drill started, us boys had to shield the girls. To help insure the survival of the species I guess.

But I do remember fear going around during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Adults talked among themselves in hushed tones that us kids couldn't hear and my parents suddenly bought a lot of extra canned food to store in the basement.