At the height of the Cold War, when America’s children were taught to “duck and cover” in the classroom, Sharon Packer was determined to make sure her family would survive a nuclear attack by the Soviet Union. “I built my first bomb shelter when I was 8 years old. I dug a hole and worked with plywood so we could survive,” Packer recalled decades later in an interview with The Epoch Times. It was as good a backyard fallout shelter as any other at the time, she said. Large enough to hold several people and deep enough to shield against lethal radiation. Packer, 82, a retired nuclear engineer in Salt Lake City, Utah, would spend many years as an adult building fallout shelters for a living. Fast forward to 2022 and it’s a whole new geopolitical playing field, she said. Gone is President Reagan’s “Evil Empire,” which envisioned the Soviet …
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