1960s


 * For information dealing with this decade in the real world, see Early production history.

Events

 * The Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union is underway throughout the 1960s.
 * The U.S. Strategic Air Command abandons its Nike antiaircraft sites throughout the country. Many of these, including one in Saugus, are later converted for use as facilities in the Department of Defense's Mobile Underground Detention and Detainment network.
 * The DOD's Advanced Research Projects Agency begins research on computer networking, leading to the creation of ARPANET in 1967.
 * The Maoist Red Guard are notably violent during the 1960s.
 * Dean Schrock grows up on his family's farm in Owens Valley in the early 60s.
 * A squatters' shed in Arroyo Coyote, New Mexico is constructed.
 * Lucy Stiles works at the Chamberlain Auditorium in Los Angeles.
 * Biderman sets forth a treatise on effective methods of mind control, codified in Biderman's chart of coercion.
 * Phillip Bascomb attends the University of California, Berkeley, where he grows a ponytail and walrus mustache.

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