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Stay away from windows, shards of glass flying at high speeds are a big factor in indoor deaths from blasts. Many embassies have breathable curtains with weight
by saboot 4y ago
Stay away from windows, shards of glass flying at high speeds are a big factor in indoor deaths from blasts. Many embassies have breathable curtains with weights on the bottom, to catch any glass while letting air pass through
- twblalock 4y agoNot just glass. Some people in Hiroshima had to have surgery later in life to remove other people's teeth from their bodies.
- simonebrunozzi 4y ago> Some people in Hiroshima had to have surgery later in life to remove other people's teeth from their bodies. This is one of the scariest and ugliest thing I've ever read about Hiroshima.
- inglor_cz 4y agoSame, and I thought that at 44, I have seen and read pretty much everything.
- saboot 4y agoWhere did you read this? It's something I haven't heard before
- inglor_cz 4y agoI have security foils in my windows, though more against thieves than against a nuclear blast. The glass should break, but either stay in the window, or fall out in one blob kept together by the foil.
- saboot 4y agoThis will likely lead to a worse situation, by creating one giant projectile travelling through the air https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6eCd3qYCC6E https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6eCd3qYCC6E With the bomb curtain I mentioned, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKiig392a3I https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKiig392a3I There are bomb films similar to what you described, but they need to be added with a blast resistant window frame https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKjVbytYFHA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKjVbytYFHA I presented these videos during a class discussing the effects of nuclear weapons and explosions