This last artifact depicts one of the many different ways the United States tried to prepare its citizens for an unexpected nuclear attack. Similar to the civil defense films that were shown to children so that they could be protected in case of an attack, dog tags began being used as an identification measure.6 With the threat of nuclear war continuing to build in the early 1950s, some cities in the United States began giving thousands of school children dog tags in the event that there was an unexpected nuclear attack, so that the children could eventually be identified. Even though a large number of the children would have most likely not completely understood the importance of wearing the dog tags, they were still required to wear them in order as some sort of protective measure. This is significant because it demonstrates just how prevalent paranoia was during this time period, and how even the most innocent aspects of many American’s lives were still affected by this fear.