http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-8n36K2tjE

MACROSS was badly dubbed and cut and played on US TV in 1985 as "Robotech".  This little sequence of global annihilation nearly got it banned.  Parents were furious that it was "snuck in" at 4pm instead of airing after the family hour, 10pm like a serious drama such as "The Day After".

"The Day After" was seriously challenged too, because it depicted America using tactical nukes first.

We're pumping kids full of crap about global warming, but nothing like we used to do regarding the Cold War.  In 1981 I got a mimeographed sheet that set out a story.  I was building a bomb shelter and I was half finished when the nukes started falling.  30 people showed up and I had room and food for 15.   It went down the list-- family of five, 80 year old doctor whose wife had terminal cancer, etc.  and asked me how I'd choose.  I was in first grade.

In 1955 we didn't have Medicare but we spent tax dollars on this crap:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6gy_krPau8

When you absolutely positively had to have a nuke delivered 13 miles away regardless of weather.

I understand 1/3 of the US population was born since 1980, so most people don't even remember living under the threat of the Bomb.  It explains how frivolous and disproportionate they are.