Growing up in the 60s and 70s, the threat of a potential nuclear war was never too far from my mind, and often in my dreams. In fact it sometimes used to scare the hell out of me. I even remember as a small child playing a game where I had to play catch against a wall. Sometimes I'd say to myself " If I drop it there'll be a nuclear war".
When my older JW sister indoctrinated me at the age of 13 and convinced me it would be Jehovah doing the global destruction bit and not the US and the USSR, strangely enough it was a huge weight of my mind. Bizarrely a perceived, even remote threat of global destruction was replaced by a real one, with no guarantees of safe passage through the Tribulation. Can anybody empathise with this? In hindsight the mindset, like so many JW mindsets is hard to understand, even though it was my own.