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How did fears of nuclear war affect American society

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The US government's decision to develop a hydrogen bomb, first tested in 1952, committed the United States to an ever-escalating arms race with the Soviet Union.
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People experienced living in fear of being attacked with nuclear bombs.

Schools constructed bomb shelters and carried bomb drills to prepare students to duck-and-cover in order to protect themselves from a nuclear bomb explosion.

Some families raised backyard fallout shelters.

Cold war issues appeared in films, theatre, television, and popular fiction.

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