Under attack?

Today was the annual testing of Switzerland’s civil defense sirens, which takes place on the first Wednesday of February each year. It basically sounded like an air raid warning from World War II (at least based on my perception of such warning systems from WWII documentaries and movies). It also made me think of something you might have heard in the U.S. during the Cold War – when American school children would duck and cover under their desks as practice for a potential nuclear attack during the 50s.