How did the arms race impact students in the 1950s?

Mainly in the United States, students in Public Schools had to practice a series of drills involved in an event of a nuclear attack. They were told basic things like "hide under your desk". Of coarse, in a nuclear attack this would do nothing at all. Drills like these were essentially Propaganda "stunts".

Also, the education students recieved in both the US and the USSR would most likley be bias, assuming that thier nation was winnning the arms race.