[LINK] Surviving a nuclear bomb

[Kim Holburn]

On 2010/Dec/17, at 3:19 PM, Stilgherrian wrote:

> 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.

Why?  Because we are too unimportant and too distant to be a target?  Sounds like a win to me.

Anyway it's easy: What to do in case of a nuclear strike: die, get horribly burnt, or get missed.

> That, and Hey Hey It's Saturday.

Perhaps we could expand that to commercial TV in general.  Then again, I'm not sure this is solely an Australian failure.

> I'm not sure which is worse.

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