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#269065 - 04/14/14 10:45 PM surviving nuclear explosion.
yee Offline
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Registered: 12/10/11
Posts: 169
http://theweek.com/article/index/259829/...t-should-you-do

Recommendations are not intuitive and the odds of it happening is rather low but I suppose knowledge is power.

1. seek immediate shelter for one hour.
2. move away from blast site to more substantial shelter afterwards.
3. do NOT drive away.

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#269067 - 04/15/14 02:06 AM Re: surviving nuclear explosion. [Re: yee]
chaosmagnet Offline
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Registered: 12/03/09
Posts: 3819
Loc: USA
The article speaks authoritatively but without giving much detail as to the rationale behind its recommendations. I also think that the recommendations might be different for someone who is ten or twenty miles away from the explosion.

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#269069 - 04/15/14 11:12 AM Re: surviving nuclear explosion. [Re: chaosmagnet]
chickenlittle Offline
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Registered: 06/06/10
Posts: 102
Loc: Canada
The article give the source for the comments as a link embedded in the text.
The article is using the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's National Capital Region Key Response Planning Factors for the Aftermath of Nuclear Terrorism (2011)as the source of its information.

Quote:
The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory released a report in 2011 that spells all this out. It hasn't gotten nearly the attention it deserves.

It's called the "National Capital Region Key Response Planning Factors for the Aftermath of Nuclear Terrorism" and it makes for fascinating reading.

Did you know, for example, that:


Edited by chickenlittle (04/15/14 11:15 AM)

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#269153 - 04/17/14 12:28 AM Re: surviving nuclear explosion. [Re: yee]
Burncycle Offline
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Registered: 09/16/04
Posts: 577
I saw this or a similar article on a blog and it had one of the best comments that went something along the lines of...

"I had my roof made out of old school desks, I should be fine"

laugh


Edited by Burncycle (04/17/14 01:04 AM)

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#269165 - 04/17/14 01:17 PM Re: surviving nuclear explosion. [Re: yee]
Dagny Offline
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Registered: 11/25/08
Posts: 1918
Loc: Washington, DC

A couple years ago, we had a discussion on the report underlaying this article:


http://forums.equipped.org/ubbthreads.ph...true#Post243237



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