[LINK] Surviving a nuclear bomb

[Stilgherrian]

On 17/12/2010, at 3:11 PM, Jan Whitaker wrote:
> I guess 'duck and cover' was right all along. Who else was taught in 
> the 50s and 60s to jump under your school desk if the big one hit? 
> Raise hands. I wonder if kids today have ever heard the word 
> 'fall-out' before. I think I was probably 6 or 7 when I first heard 
> it. We didn't have one, but many people had 'fallout shelters'. My 
> grandparents had a room in the basement with a cot and lots of food, 
> just in case.
> 
> How times have changed.

I consider it a singular failure of modern Australian society that most people I speak to have no idea what to do in case of a nuclear strike.

That, and Hey Hey It's Saturday.

I'm not sure which is worse.

Stil


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