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Re:Fireball over US, Wednesday, April 17th 2019 around 02:57 by zipwitch on Wednesday April 17, 2019 @04:17PM (#19686112)
Duck and cover gets a lot of mockery, but my understanding from reading morbidly fascinating Cold War history and source material is that is was an easily-taught response that was pretty effective at minimizing the damage from a shockwave and associated debris, or from direct exposure to the thermal pulse. Of course, that is only a narrow range of all possible causes of injury from a nearby nuclear detonation.

Rational Wiki has a good summaryhttps://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Duck_and_Cover

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Re:Fireball over US, Wednesday, April 17th 2019 around 02:57 by malyk on Wednesday April 17, 2019 @04:46PM (#19686351)
99 Percent Invisible had a nice episode on duck and cover (amongst other things).

https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/atomic-tattoos/

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Re:Fireball over US, Wednesday, April 17th 2019 around 02:57 by stcredzero on Wednesday April 17, 2019 @05:35PM (#19686682)
was an easily-taught response that was pretty effective at minimizing the damage from a shockwave and associated debris

My freshman physics professor had a story about working for a cold war defense research lab, and not being told what the graph he was working on was about until he absolutely had to know. Eventually, it was revealed that the graph was for % fatalities from flying glass by height of airburst, megatonnage of weapon, and distance from ground zero.

It was at that moment, he decided to find a job elsewhere.

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Re:Fireball over US, Wednesday, April 17th 2019 around 02:57 by zikzak on Wednesday April 17, 2019 @08:52PM (#19687777)
Beats rushing to the nearest plate glass window.
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