Of 127 lower division college students who expressed concern about their future indirectly using incomplete sentences 18% mentioned nuclear war directly. Statistically significant differences were noted between this study and a similar study completed in the early 1960s. Concern about nuclear war among American college students has increased over the past 20 years.
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