No... just no...
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Bullshit. Maybe 90s kids had it great, but no one hid the horrors of thermonuclear war from kids during the Cold War. In fact, when Ronald Rayguns (and we called him that even before SDI "Star Wars" because of his cowboy rep) came in, they doubled down on the "look at what nukes did to the Japanese" stuff (Three Mile Island didn't help).
ESPECIALLY if you grew up in a prime target area (Windsor-Detroit used to be manufacturing powerhouses. Chrysler Canada's main plant converted itself from civilian cars to military vehicles (tanks, etc) at the start of WW2 in 24 hrs. Yes, the area had a shit-ton of nukes aimed at it. And our teachers made sure we knew it.
Born in 85, my mother made me very aware of issues like the cold war (the first time I got to stay up late was seeing the wall come down, though I only had a very vague idea of the significance) desert storm and the Yugoslavian war. I can't remember any attempt at teachers to engage students in the goings-on of world events like that until 9/11 and students not only didn't care, but scoffed at it. Dollars to doughnuts this 'outrage' is the chickens coming home to roost on that same willful ignorance.
Definitely
I'm not THAT old.
In fact, that was pointed out as the difference between the A-bomb and the H-bomb. And then there was the neutron bomb ...