Two weeks later, it was shown to school officials in New York City, and it debuted in the classroom on March 6, 1952. It was first screened on January 7, 1952, as part of the Alert America civil defense exhibit convoy in Washington DC. Duck and Cover taught children to hide under a desk or against a wall and cover their neck and face for safety during a nuclear attack. They were used to teach life skills to students across the country in a uniform way. Two of the organization’s more visible contributions were public fallout shelters and the Emergency Broadcast System.Įducational films such as this one were popular in the 1950s.
As a result, Congress created the Federal Civil Defense Administration in 1950 to prepare America for emergencies.
The Soviet Union had tested its first nuclear bomb in 1949 and fear of an attack in the United States was high. THE US Government built several doomsday nuclear bunkers designed to withstand a nuclear apocalypse during the 1950s and 1960s when tensions with the. As the Cold War pervaded domestic as well as international spheres, Duck and Cover, an educational film produced by the Federal Civil Defense Administration and Archer Productions Inc., showed children how to react in case of a nuclear attack.
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