When I was growing up boys were just expected to know everything about technology: from Cars and Trucks to nuclear weapons

It was about preparing for a nuclear war with Russia and possibly China then in the 1950s when I was a child. I was 12 in 1960. But, like I said it was a different time than now where we had just been through World War II and expected a nuclear war with Russia and possibly China.

So, I was expected to know how cars and motorcycles and all gasoline and diesel engines work and maybe be able to fix them in some sort of emergency. I was also expected to know basically how nuclear weapons worked simply because we were all trained (who were boys then and some girls) how everything worked so in a war we could "Step in" and rescue our families and friends around the world who were allied with us fighting the Soviet Union then.

In some ways all this has changed and yet, I kind of see people allowing their children to be completely ignorant of any of this which will make all people vulnerable in an actual war if that comes.

Some people think we are about to go into a Violent War with Russia and possibly China right now within a few weeks.  This appears to be actually possible.

However, it might look like The Viet Nam war or the Korean War also. So, it would be a proxy war not a direct war between all the homelands simply because all life on earth could or would end if that happened and earth would or could turn into an asteroid belt like Maldek did out past Mars in the Asteroid belt that was once a planet that some of our ancestors lived on before they nuked themselves out of existence. The Survivors came to earth to colonize then.