life in the cold war

Period 4

During the Cold war many things were not as different as one would think. All the people that I interviewed said that things were not much different except for a few memorable times.
The first person I chose was a boy named William. He was 13 years old and he had what people called “nuke fever.” He as many other people said they had to hide under their desks at school and close all of the blinds so that no light could be let in. William though took extra “precaution” which was almost absolute craziness. He had made a fallout shelter out of his ping-pong table, had food and first aid ready, and had a theory about pencils. He thought that if he put pencils all around the shelter the lead would stop the radiation from the bomb coming in and it would protect him.
The second person th...