I grew up in a time when the best advice for protection should the evil USSR attack the USA (and hence the entire “Western” world) with “Atomic Bombs” was to duck and cover. A clever little jingle was devised along with a quaint animation of a turtle. There was an education programme generated to encourage school children to run inside should they hear the sirens. If they heard a large, loud bang and saw a super bright flash, “brighter than the sun” they should throw themselves to the ground and cover themselves with anything nearby, school desk, picnic cloth, napkin; perhaps the nearest other person.   That was called the…