The 'instructional film' was created in 1951 when the
memories of Hiroshima were still on people's minds...
I think I was either in kindergarten or first grade, but I remember clearly the janitor coming in to our classrom - it was either '56 or '57 - with the projector. They turned off the lights, pulled the blinds down on the windows, and showed us this. Really wasn't very good advice, but we were still pretty naive about what the bomb could really do, right?
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People were foolish enough to believe that a desk was suitable to protect you from a nuclear bomb. Their word has lacked authority since. It became worse once they admitted they weren't able to define either sex correctly.
ReplyDeleteThe desk wasn't meant to protect you from the flash or the radiation. It was and does protect you from stuff like lights falling down from the ceiling.
ReplyDeleteDuck puts you face down to protect your face from flying debris. Again, excellent advice. Better advice would have been "Ass to the Blast" which is what you should do, turn away from the blast and duck down and cover your head and face.
Yes, good advice, very good advice, for people directly outside of the flash and radiation pulse and the high-temp fire.
"Duck and Cover" has been very maligned.
Also very much maligned are the whole nuclear winter and crap. Our nukes were and are set to be air bursts. Same with the Soviets and now the Russians. Air bursts produce heat and a radiation pulse, but overall the fallout is minimal. It's ground bursts that toss up the fallout. Yeah, still sucks.