I'm the same age, and from Northern California, and I read and watched plenty of Post Nuclear War Fiction. We knew how to use a Geiger counter, survivalism was definitely A Thing, and I'm pretty sure I was exposed to at least as much Third World War Angst as your average kid.
Nobody I knew, and nobody I had ever heard of, expressed any doubt whatsoever that we would all live into adulthood.
People planned for college, or for jobs; people fell in love, people daydreamed about what the future might hold. The background threat didn't spoil anyone's day, and in the case of the survivalists it probably gave them a much-needed sense of purpose.
Based on my own experience of those same years, I'd say you were in particularly bleak company.
Nobody I knew, and nobody I had ever heard of, expressed any doubt whatsoever that we would all live into adulthood.
People planned for college, or for jobs; people fell in love, people daydreamed about what the future might hold. The background threat didn't spoil anyone's day, and in the case of the survivalists it probably gave them a much-needed sense of purpose.
Based on my own experience of those same years, I'd say you were in particularly bleak company.