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This Kurzgesagt video is a much better explainer: https://youtu.be/5iPH-br_eJQ https://youtu.be/5iPH-br_eJQ These directives are mostly common sense knowledge

This Kurzgesagt video is a much better explainer: https://youtu.be/5iPH-br_eJQ https://youtu.be/5iPH-br_eJQ These directives are mostly common sense knowledge which anyone in modern world will know. No mention of iodine tablets for fallouts. Besides if modern nuclear devices are detonated will they be a Hiroshima type? (Hint hint: No. Emphatic No). The MIRVs of US are typically rated at 275KT going up to several megatons. Similar scale for Russia & China. Unless you're in reinforced bunkers with heavy steel doors, you are most likely toast. Incineration by the thermal blast is most likely outcome.

King-Aaron 4y ago
> The MIRVs of US are typically rated at 275KT going up to several megatons. Yep, that last line in the OP video really gets me... "All right? You've got this!" No, you don't got this
jnwatson 4y ago
Obviously, the message doesn’t matter for those incinerated. It applies to the folks in the outer boroughs and suburbs outside the blast radius.
- srvmshr 4y ago
  The article doesn't specifically tell these are instructions for people outside the kill zone. And severely lacking survival information. Either the script should have added more details (instead of a commonsensical fluff piece) or added more practical information such as shelter inside well built closets, underground subway or enclosed spaces (and pay attention to emergency alarms/ alerts of a nuclear strike)
- ohiovr 4y ago
  MIRVs cover a vast area. The blast area basically surrounds the target and it burns out from the outside to the inside.
idontwantthis 4y ago
A bigger fireball also means more people affected, but not incinerated because the area of less destruction surrounding it will also be bigger. This advice is always going to be relevant, no matter how big the bomb. > Unless you're in reinforced bunkers with heavy steel doors, you are most likely toast. No building in the world, not even Cheyenne mountain can survive being in a nuclear fireball or even close to one. The steel doors are also for people nearby, but not directly hit.
- srvmshr 4y ago
  > No building in the world, not even Cheyenne mountain can survive being in a nuclear fireball or even close to one. Reference? I thought those were built specifically for inhabitants to survive even an overhead blast. Edit: My parent comment is not aimed at specifics of detonation, but rather the poor quality of instruction. The focus should not be immediately surviving the blast. If you're caught unaware, survival becomes a matter of luck rather than hurried preparedness. Its more to do with "what" and "how to" after the event. Those are way too crucial. For god's sake, even WikiHow has a better and far more detailed page on this topic: https://www.wikihow.com/Survive-a-Nuclear-Attack https://www.wikihow.com/Survive-a-Nuclear-Attack If history has taught anything, black rain a few hours after Hiroshima killed many more thousands in the coming years.
  - survirtual 4y ago
    Although it would not be difficult to locate a reference, I will back up what the post you’re replying to said. Before the concern of nuclear fallout, some thought to use nukes as “mountain movers”. Think about that. How many mountains have humans been able to make? But we have a device that can largely obliterate one. Bunkers are all about surviving indirect blasts and protecting from radiation exposure. If you have a deep enough underground bunker, you largely protect yourself from a “direct blast,” but if a weapon burrowed anywhere near your bunker and detonated it’s good night. You’d also need nation-scale resources to build a bunker deep enough, and have air, water, vapor barriers, etc.
    - 4y ago
sebazzz 4y ago
> No mention of iodine tablets for fallouts. That only works when you know _exactly_ when to take them.

King-Aaron 4y ago

> The MIRVs of US are typically rated at 275KT going up to several megatons. Yep, that last line in the OP video really gets me... "All right? You've got this!" No, you don't got this

jnwatson 4y ago

Obviously, the message doesn’t matter for those incinerated. It applies to the folks in the outer boroughs and suburbs outside the blast radius.

srvmshr 4y ago
The article doesn't specifically tell these are instructions for people outside the kill zone. And severely lacking survival information. Either the script should have added more details (instead of a commonsensical fluff piece) or added more practical information such as shelter inside well built closets, underground subway or enclosed spaces (and pay attention to emergency alarms/ alerts of a nuclear strike)
ohiovr 4y ago
MIRVs cover a vast area. The blast area basically surrounds the target and it burns out from the outside to the inside.

idontwantthis 4y ago

A bigger fireball also means more people affected, but not incinerated because the area of less destruction surrounding it will also be bigger. This advice is always going to be relevant, no matter how big the bomb. > Unless you're in reinforced bunkers with heavy steel doors, you are most likely toast. No building in the world, not even Cheyenne mountain can survive being in a nuclear fireball or even close to one. The steel doors are also for people nearby, but not directly hit.

srvmshr 4y ago
> No building in the world, not even Cheyenne mountain can survive being in a nuclear fireball or even close to one. Reference? I thought those were built specifically for inhabitants to survive even an overhead blast. Edit: My parent comment is not aimed at specifics of detonation, but rather the poor quality of instruction. The focus should not be immediately surviving the blast. If you're caught unaware, survival becomes a matter of luck rather than hurried preparedness. Its more to do with "what" and "how to" after the event. Those are way too crucial. For god's sake, even WikiHow has a better and far more detailed page on this topic: https://www.wikihow.com/Survive-a-Nuclear-Attack https://www.wikihow.com/Survive-a-Nuclear-Attack If history has taught anything, black rain a few hours after Hiroshima killed many more thousands in the coming years.
- survirtual 4y ago
  Although it would not be difficult to locate a reference, I will back up what the post you’re replying to said. Before the concern of nuclear fallout, some thought to use nukes as “mountain movers”. Think about that. How many mountains have humans been able to make? But we have a device that can largely obliterate one. Bunkers are all about surviving indirect blasts and protecting from radiation exposure. If you have a deep enough underground bunker, you largely protect yourself from a “direct blast,” but if a weapon burrowed anywhere near your bunker and detonated it’s good night. You’d also need nation-scale resources to build a bunker deep enough, and have air, water, vapor barriers, etc.
  - 4y ago

sebazzz 4y ago

> No mention of iodine tablets for fallouts. That only works when you know _exactly_ when to take them.