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The US and Russia have agreed to remain committed to the nuclear deal that limits the number of nuclear warheads either side will hold in their stockpiles.
Both sides have said that as long as the other remains committed, then no further nuclear weapons will be made or bought. But it seems difficult to trust anyone who has the power to wipe out entire cities with the press of a button, or even the ability to consider it.
It is even more difficult to develop and maintain that trust when the targets include millions of children.
If you grew up in the UK in the 1970s and ‘80s, you will probably remember the public information film laughably known as “Protect and Survive.” The video explained how people should find shelter in the safest room in their home and stay there until the all-clear was sounded. Households were told to build shelters using either boards or doors leaned at an angle against a wall, and to then reinforce this with bricks and to have a store of tinned food and clean water to drink.
