Back to bomb shelters? North Korea threats revive nuke fe
Published: Wednesday, August 16, 2017 @ 3:23 AM Updated: Wednesday, August 16, 2017 @ 3:21 AM Los Angeles — After the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, the era of nuclear nightmares — of the atomic arms race , of backyard bomb shelters , of schoolchildren diving under desks to practice their survival skills in the event of an attack — seemed to finally, thankfully, fade into history. Until now. For some baby boomers, North Korea's nuclear advances and President Donald Trump 's bellicose response have prompted flashbacks to a time when they were young, and when they prayed each night that they might awaken the next morning. For their children, the North Korean crisis was a taste of what the Cold War was like. "I'm not concerned to where I can't sleep at night. But it certainly raises alarms for Guam or even Hawaii, where it might be a real threat," said 24-year-old banker Christian Zwicky of San Bernardino, California. People of his parents' generation w...