FBI … SAVE US!: It’s been a long time since I was last shown the scratchy film titled, “What to do in a nuclear attack, kids.”

Those how-to instructionals got off on the wrong survival foot by beginning with that famed nuclear blast scene where the prototypical American home is vaporized, front to back, by an A-bomb. That was followed by the scene where huge pine trees are shock-waved sideways, clear to the ground. My first thought was not survival but, pretty much, “We’re screwed.”