Bloom County Comic Strip

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Bloom County is an American comic strip by Berkeley Breathed which originally ran from December 8, 1980, until August 6, 1989. It examined events in politics and culture through the viewpoint of a fanciful small town in Middle America, where children often have adult personalities and vocabularies and where animals can talk.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

but it definitely felt like nuclear war was a real possibility.

What is old, is new again.

I, myself, grew up in rural NM not terribly far from Trinity site (the site of the first atomic detonation). I am young enough I missed all of the drill's and such in school, but our elementary school did have a bomb shelter.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 23 hours ago

If my schools did, I wasn't aware of it. Quite possible there was a basement designated for it though.