Growing up during the Cold War

My mom was an elementary school student growing up during the Cold War, although she had a hard time remembering the impact it had on her life. "We were always very afraid that Russia was going to drop and atomic bomb on California and kill us all so in school, they would have us do drills once a month or so where we'd have to duck under our desks-as if that would help if they dropped an atom bomb on us. Because of that, I think as young kids, we were a little bit afraid that sometime Russia would drop a bomb on us. We also always thought of Russia as the enemy and we would often watch cartoons and T.V. shows where Russians were always the bad people. If you wanted to have a bad person like in Bullwinkle, you'd give them a Russian name like "Natasha" and have them speak with a Russian accent and she would be the bad person and I know all that came out of our fear of Russia."