Although the U.S. and the Soviet Union had been wartime allies against Nazi Germany, the two sides differed on how to reconstruct the postwar world even before the end of the Second World War. The United States monopoly on nuclear weapons was broken in 1949 when the Soviet Union tested its first nuclear device, and many in the government and public perceived that the United States was more vulnerable than it ever had been before.
In the wake of the fear that the Cold War spread, substantial numbers of fallout shelters were built in the 1950s in the United States. “Duck and Cover” exercises had quickly become a part of Civil Defense drills that every American citizen, from kids to the elderly, practiced so as to be ready in the event of nuclear war.
Many movies and songs that played on people’s fears were released during the cold war, including today’s offering, “Mister Russian, Please Don’t Shoot Down Santa’s Sleigh,” by The Sensational Little Shana Lynette.
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