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    Sept. 12, 1958: Beverly Wysocki, top, and Marie Graskamp emerge from a new family-type bomb shelter on display in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. For some baby boomers, North Korea's nuclear advances and the Trump administration's bellicose response have prompted flashbacks to a time when they prayed each night that they might awaken the next morning.

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    Jan. 29, 1962: The Spalding family, left, and the Richmond family demonstrate how people of the town would sit out a nuclear attack and its radioactive aftermath in Los Alamos, New Mexico, birthplace of the atomic and hydrogen bombs.

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    Jan. 19, 1959: Pfc. Warner Bitterman, left, watches as Army chief chemical officer Maj. Gen. Marshall Stubbs checks a new civilian gas mask being worn by secretary Margaret Francis at his Pentagon office in Washington.

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    Jan. 25, 1951: Students at Thomas Jefferson elementary school kneel in the hallway during an air raid drill being practiced by public schools in Baltimore.

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    Sept. 7, 1961: Bomb shelter manufacturer engineers Vincent Carubia, left, and Eward Klein study specifications for a fiberglass dome shelter being installed on an estate in Locust Valley, New York.

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    May 26, 1951: A radiological team checks a "bombed" area for radiation after a simulated atomic bombing in Utica, New York.

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    April 28, 1961: A dog sits near a police officer in the middle of an empty Times Square during a 10-minute civil defense test air raid alert in New York.

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    March 23, 1951: Two styles of bomb shelters are shown for sale at Bomb Shelter Mart in Los Angeles.

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    Aug. 9, 2017: A sign marks the entrance to the former Nike Missile Control Site LA-96, which was operational for a time during the Cold War, at San Vicente Mountain Park on the Santa Monica Mountains in Los Angeles.

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