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Yeah, because putting your head down against an interior wall or under a desk is going to make any difference.

• JumpCrisscross 9y ago
  It could. If you’re in the inferno, no. If you’re outside the thermal flux, protected from ionising radiation by simple structure (i.e. away from windows) and within the pressure flux, duck and cover works. If you’re in cases one and two, you die, quickly or painfully. Since you don’t know ex ante where the bomb will burst, duck and cover makes sense.
• coldtea 9y ago
  It's going to make a huge difference is the blast is far enough away for you to not be in the "obliterate everything" zone, but still close enough to be dangerous.
  • iends 9y ago
    Is this the same area where you will die of radiation over the weeks following the attack?
    • coldtea 9y ago
      No, you can survive for decades or ever even within a fairly close area.