![]() even if it's a radiation mutant, covered with fish scales, and your teacher is looking like Spock.ģ:01 If your silly neignbor is wearing a dark-colored neck tie, prepare a pipe from carton, and scissors. ![]() Turtle is a pound of edible meat, and can be cooked without a pan.ģ:00. and let the first one carry a candle, while others are singing hymns.Ģ:31 A nuclear blast is like a winter, but in summer.Ģ:43 Keep your turtles with rear side to the flash.Ģ:47 After being exposed to the flash, use tan lotions to make your tan smooth and uniform.Ģ:56 Study your local fauna. ![]() before everyone tries doing the same.ġ:55 If you don't have a car, or you are a taxi driver, and your car is broken, try to wave with hands, maybe somebody wil take you aboard.ġ:57 If you are a group, and a man in strange hat is waving with a white glove to you, follow him. Lay down in the deepest concavity or ditch that is handyġ:23 Living in Greenland is what you need to feel safe.ġ:24 If you are a teacher, and feel tired, just shout out "Duck and cover!", and you can have a minute of rest and silence.ġ:34 America of 1951 is a country of equal possibilities Īlso, light-colored materials have greater reflective power, and protect you better.ġ:41 You can finally come out and try a poledance, and nobody laughs at you.īut first ensure that the pole is not too hot for your man's pride, regardless of your gender self-identification.ġ:49 Try to escape from the city by car, while others are hiding.ġ:53. Same advice if stuck in the open during a tornado. If you're far enough away that the overpressure is survivable, lying down is better because the blast wave is less likely to pick you up and throw you around like a rag doll. If you're close enough that the overpressure alone is lethal, then it's going to kill you no matter what. Lying down is better than standing up, but not with respect to overpressure itself. Here in DC, the underground metro stations can be accessed from the surface via tunnel shafts that sink diagonally into the ground:īeing at the bottom of that tunnel is not going to be any different from being on the surface the blast wave is just going to enter and rush straight down without noticing.īut if this tunnel opens into a rail stop that is set perpendicular to the escalators, and you're some distance away from the tunnel, you're in a much better position. The more of a maze that the wave has to traverse, the more it will weaken. The overpressure wave is going to enter any opening and propagate through any structure that is not destroyed by it, above or below ground, but the path it takes before it gets to you will attenuate it significantly. The farther you are from the epicenter, and the more barriers you have between you and the epicenter, the better. Certainly not meaningful for most people.ĭistance and attenuation are the biggest factors. There are some exceptions on the battlefield certain tanks have armor capable of "tanking" the overpressure wave and fireball of a tactical nuke but the armor is not thick enough to shield the occupants from the neutron radiation. If you are in a building that is tough enough to protect you from the blast wave and firestorm, it will likely be large enough to shield you from the prompt radiation. The prompt radiation from a nuclear blast is really NOT a serious problem in most situations. ![]() Assuming that we are dealing with a strategic nuclear weapon, the blast is simply far far larger than a conventional high explosive weapon and thus the radius of total destruction is greater. In one sense, a nuclear blast is not that different from the blast produced by a conventional weapon most of the damage comes from the initial overpressure wave and the subsequent firestorm. The major, immediate risk of death from a nuclear blast comes primarily from kinetic effects, not nuclear ones.
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