Duck & cover tactics against nuclear blast?

[Accipiter22]

what is the rap song that samples that "duck and cover" lady at the beginning of it??

 

[BUTCH1]

LOL@ the video, they had us do those types of drills in grade school-what a joke!
from the video("you all know how dangerous atomic bombs can be")....LOL!!!

 

[BoomerD]

I remember the "duck and cover" drills in school when I was a kid...we had to watch the cheesy movies as well...like hiding under your desk will really make any difference in a nuk-u-lur attack...but, the guvmint had to calm the sheep somehow during the early years of the cold war, so they told everyone that simple tricks like that and back yard bomb shelters would make life sustainable...then they built Cheyenne Mountain for themselves...

 

[JEDIYoda]

10/10 for video

 

[judasmachine]

rent The Atomic Cafe

 

[IGBT]

..bury a cargo container wit supplies.. in your back yard. And hope the big x-ray is far away when it pops.

 

[Kadarin]

Heh.. I remember having to do duck and cover drills back in elementary school.

 

[sao123]

Once you see the explosion with a mushroom cloud...

its too late to duck.

 

[Kelemvor]

Originally posted by: 91TTZ

Originally posted by: Noobgasm
Does anyone know of websites documenting the proper procedure for this? I remember reading about this a few months ago but I lost the website. Did Google for a while but came up with no results.

That was one of those "feel good" tactics that did nothing but make people feel more secure. South Park covered it well in their volcano episode.

Heh, I was just going to post about that episode. Was pretty funny.

 

[sao123]

I dont think Duck & Cover is going to help you in the event of this.

 

[Captante]

Originally posted by: MikeyIs4Dcats
so who's second acount are you? I don't buy you joining 18 months ago and never posting.

More then likly a recently banned member.

 

[DrPizza]

Actually, there's a 50's or 60's newsreal that shows soldiers in a trench training for battle on the nuclear battlefield... It's amazing to watch. It's on some archive site on the internet. What I remember of it: the soldiers are crouched in the trench, nuclear bomb goes off. Later, they brush off the soldiers with wisk brooms to help remove the radioactive fallout. (I'll guess that years later, those soldiers had higher than usual incidents of cancer.)

 

[Sukhoi]

Originally posted by: DrPizza
Actually, there's a 50's or 60's newsreal that shows soldiers in a trench training for battle on the nuclear battlefield... It's amazing to watch. It's on some archive site on the internet. What I remember of it: the soldiers are crouched in the trench, nuclear bomb goes off. Later, they brush off the soldiers with wisk brooms to help remove the radioactive fallout. (I'll guess that years later, those soldiers had higher than usual incidents of cancer.)

Link us!

 

[blackllotus]

The basic idea is you hide under something to avoid debris so instead of dying painlessly you die from radiation poisoning

 

[Eli]

Originally posted by: sao123
Once you see the explosion with a mushroom cloud...

its too late to duck.

Nah..... If you're far enough away, you've got at least a few seconds before the shockwave traveling at the speed of sound hits you, and even more time before the thermal shockwave traveling at 400MPH hits you.

 

[BUTCH1]

Originally posted by: IGBT
..bury a cargo container wit supplies.. in your back yard. And hope the big x-ray is far away when it pops.

There were people in my old neighborhood who actually HAD working bomb shelters installed,
this was serious stuff back in early 60's, the Cuban missile crisis scared the CRAP out of a lot
of people..

 

[DrPizza]

Originally posted by: Sukhoi

Originally posted by: DrPizza
Actually, there's a 50's or 60's newsreal that shows soldiers in a trench training for battle on the nuclear battlefield... It's amazing to watch. It's on some archive site on the internet. What I remember of it: the soldiers are crouched in the trench, nuclear bomb goes off. Later, they brush off the soldiers with wisk brooms to help remove the radioactive fallout. (I'll guess that years later, those soldiers had higher than usual incidents of cancer.)

Link us!

Not the video I had originally seen, but good enough:
here

 

[DrPizza]

Here's another "must see" video on how to survive a nuclear blast (from 1950)...

Don't forget to brush the radioactive dust off!

edit: oops

 

[DrPizza]

The best one; the one I was looking for:
here

 

[Noobgasm]

Making my family practice with me twice a day, feel safer already.