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[–]WoodyWoodPecker 7 insightful - 3 fun7 insightful - 2 fun8 insightful - 3 fun -  (5 children)

The atomic family has a BBQ. Just the thing Liberal Democrats want to stop with Drag Queen Story Hour.

[–]chottohen[S] 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (4 children)

You could photoshop in the start of a mushroom cloud in the background. I'm sure many on this site grew up with that mushroom cloud always in the back of their mind.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

I was raised under the constant worry of the mushroom cloud... Still remember sitting at the top of the stairs as a kid, eavesdropping on my parents as the discussed the current likelihood everything was gonna go up in a cloud of fire. And then one day we awesome, sometime in the early nineties, and guess what, no more threat.

[–]chottohen[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Yes, me too, especially when I realized my parents were worried. We lived near a Strategic Air Command base and it was an obvious target. I read all the novels about it and began to secretly wish that it would happen. I was a strange kid.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Yea, I'm sure I probably had similar thoughts. Maybe not "wished" it would happen but perhaps developed a sort of "morbid curiosity" about it. It would be hard not to, given the absolutely massive Armageddon, apocalyptical power associated with the imagery. I think it was about that time that I read the Stephen King novel, The Stand, which while not directly about nuclear war, is a close approximation of the results. I remember associating that story with what it would be like to experience nuclear war....

[–]chottohen[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Your description of my feelings then is spot-on.