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Doesn't everyone know that the best defense against such an attack is: "duck and cover"? Further, the desks of school children could be used as shelter/cover s

Doesn't everyone know that the best defense against such an attack is: "duck and cover"? Further, the desks of school children could be used as shelter/cover since everyone knows that these desks are made of the most powerful adamantium/vibranium alloy.

djsumdog 9y ago
To play devils advocate here, because I agree those old videos were stupid, I think the point was survival in the case of indirect hits. If a building is bombed nearby and you're not close, hiding under whatever is similar to protecting yourself from an earthquake .. that is any debris that could fall from the shock.
iends 9y ago
I also keep an old refrigerator in my house to climb into.
- coldtea 9y ago
  https://www.quora.com/How-did-people-survived-the-impact-of-the-Hiroshima-atomic-bomb https://www.quora.com/How-did-people-survived-the-impact-of-... That refrigerator would have been very handy here too: "DŌ-OH WAS ABOUT THREE-FOURTHS OF A MILE FROM THE HYPOCENTER, INSIDE A MITSUBISHI TORPEDO FACTORY. THE MASSIVE...FACTORY COLLAPSED ON TOP OF HER AND THOUSANDS OF OTHERS". https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2015/08/150809-atomic-bomb-hiroshima-nagasaki-radiation-world-war-II-ngbooktalk/ https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2015/08/150809-atomic-bo...
rublev 9y ago
Your crap humor could use work.
coldtea 9y ago
If the building the kids are in suffers structural damage (which, if it's close enough it might) going under the desk is good, even if the desk is made from heavy cardboard paper. In general any kind of barrier is also going to help protect you against radiation, heat, etc. Why does everyone assume the bomb is going to fall directly above their heads or in some very small radius? It's a whole bloody island, it could drop anywhere.
anigbrowl 9y ago
That is in fact what you should do during an earthquake, which is the closest equivalent to a nuclear blast in terms of suddenness and potential destructive impact.

djsumdog 9y ago

To play devils advocate here, because I agree those old videos were stupid, I think the point was survival in the case of indirect hits. If a building is bombed nearby and you're not close, hiding under whatever is similar to protecting yourself from an earthquake .. that is any debris that could fall from the shock.

iends 9y ago

I also keep an old refrigerator in my house to climb into.

coldtea 9y ago
https://www.quora.com/How-did-people-survived-the-impact-of-the-Hiroshima-atomic-bomb https://www.quora.com/How-did-people-survived-the-impact-of-... That refrigerator would have been very handy here too: "DŌ-OH WAS ABOUT THREE-FOURTHS OF A MILE FROM THE HYPOCENTER, INSIDE A MITSUBISHI TORPEDO FACTORY. THE MASSIVE...FACTORY COLLAPSED ON TOP OF HER AND THOUSANDS OF OTHERS". https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2015/08/150809-atomic-bomb-hiroshima-nagasaki-radiation-world-war-II-ngbooktalk/ https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2015/08/150809-atomic-bo...

rublev 9y ago

Your crap humor could use work.

coldtea 9y ago

If the building the kids are in suffers structural damage (which, if it's close enough it might) going under the desk is good, even if the desk is made from heavy cardboard paper. In general any kind of barrier is also going to help protect you against radiation, heat, etc. Why does everyone assume the bomb is going to fall directly above their heads or in some very small radius? It's a whole bloody island, it could drop anywhere.

anigbrowl 9y ago

That is in fact what you should do during an earthquake, which is the closest equivalent to a nuclear blast in terms of suddenness and potential destructive impact.