This is nothing like the Cuban Missile Crisis.

When they were doing the Nuclear Bombardment school evacuation drills one of the girls in my Red Deer Alberta grade 2 class laughed and joked. She shut up and put her hand over her mouth after the teacher told her she would probably be the first one to get her head shot off.

They just sent us home, with no parents present. Didn't even bother to tell us to head as far away from the city as we could heading opposite the RACF base and try to find a underpass, culvert or a root cellar or gully to try and avoid the direct blast, flash and prompt radiation from targeted nuclear devices and from the ones the USA planned to detonate over Canada to prevent USSR bombers and missiles from reaching the USA. The original "Star Wars". Can't hit a Russian Missile or bomber with an anti missile, so detonate a USA nuclear weapon within a few miles of it, over Canada.