April 2011 Commentary: Masanobu Fukuoka’s One-Straw Revolution—Ducks rather than “Duck and Cover” In Response to Japan’s Nuclear Tsunami

I grew up in the 1950s.  During my childhood in the post-World War II nuclear arms race between the world’s superpowers USA and USSR, at my elementary school we learned to “duck and cover” (see http://wn.com/Duck_And_Cover_1951_Bert_The_Turtle_Civil_Defense_Film) under our desks in our classrooms to safeguard us from a nuclear attack.  Families were advised to construct underground fallout shelters stocked with sufficient bottled water and canned food until the “all clear sirens” announced it was safe to emerge after a nuclear incident.