I doubt you were taught all the wrong stuff, if you are to survive a thermonuclear explosion you'd think that water and making yourself small and shielded by things would be much more productive than thinking that you cannot do anything short of a concrete bunker, which is about the dumbest and most pointless thing you can do in that situation since the distance from the center matters a lot to the damage dealt.
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When you live within a few miles of a prime military target, nothing is going to help.
When you're sitting on Ground Zero, that's exactly right.
I do not know exactly how far away Moffett Field was, but we could see the LTA hangers from my street, so yes, we were pretty damned close. In addition, the tract homes in our neighborhood were all wood-framed (they're still there) and would have quickly turned into toothpicks. The entire Bay Area is, of course, a prime target area...Mare Island, the Presidio, etc. , but none of that mattered to me - I was ten at the time.