Out of curiosity, why 1980? I just ask because AIDS was the boogeyman* for me when I was little, not nuclear armgageddon. I was born before 1980, but not sufficiently before for me to remember any of the 70s.

*Oh, and, of course, the Mummies and dinosaurs chasing me home from the museum, but I gather that's quite normal for small kids in whatever year ;-).