![]() ![]() Tens of thousands of Americans - maybe even hundreds of thousands - actually did build shelters, and millions considered doing so. It was part of the propaganda campaign to convince the American people that they could survive a nuclear war. The family fallout shelter’s ostensible purpose - to ensure survival during and after a nuclear attack - was impossible to achieve. You will survive if you build a family fallout shelter. the 1950s and early 1960s - were expected to be able to reconcile these two diametrically opposed thoughts: A nuclear war can destroy all life on earth. Orwell called this “Doublethink.” Similarly, Americans during the early years of the Cold War between the U.S. © Bomboozled / Pointed Leaf Press In George Orwell’s 1984, citizens of the totalitarian state of Oceania were required to accomplish the impossible task of holding two contradictory ideas in their minds and accepting both of them: War is peace. ![]()
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