>>86600>You linked Duck & Cover unironically? Come on, dude.The reason for this was the post-bomb assesment of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, reviewing the survivors, their conditions, and so on. The reason for Duck and Cover is to protect you from the flash, and then flying debreies from the resulting shockwave, which is far reaching like an earthquake. After this point, Nuclear Fallout leading to contamination is your concern.
The Ministry of Infomration's Bulitens for Britons in the event of Nuclear War:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=My8McQs2iEE [Embed]Yet another film on Fallout:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=y_gTGB6-9BQ [Embed]Iodine is an essential nutrient. After enemy attack, Iodine can be used in very large amounts to temporarily halt hormone production in the thyroid and treat radiation sicknesses. This amount is much larger than dietary dosages, so plan accordingly.
1. Try to be as far away from the blast zone as possible to not get hit with the heatwave.
2. Survive the air pressure blast - Get into a concrete building and the lowest floor you can be in. Stay away from windows.
3. Survive the radiation. - There will be radiation falling from the sky. Cover the windows if they got blown out and try not to let air get inside for 3 days. Don't go outside for 3 days. After 3 days you can start to let air into the room you are in. You should try to stay inside where you are for like a week to be safe if you have the time. After a week you can go outside and travel.
3. Once outside, don't touch anything or eat food that may have been touched by falling radiation.
4. Go to an area far away from the blast zone and start a new life there. The blast zone must be quarantined for a long time.
Take in shelter with you, food, water, handcrank radio, flashlight, maybe phone and charger, and bucket to shit in.
Once the fallout has fallen to the ground, it poses no airborn risk unless something picks it back up. As for the underground cellar, that should be fortified immediately to take in an air intake from an above-ground pipe with an U connection and some filters. Pumps would be needed only for extremely deep cellars. One could also simply cover the doors of the cellar with cloth soaked in vinegar, which would absorb the fallout (but it would become radioactive, at the entrance to the cellar).
The Office of Civil Defense recomended 2 weeks before individuals should begin making short trips outside their home. The radiation /is/ fallout.
>Once outside, don't touch anything or eat food that may have been touched by falling radiation."There is no such thing as a 'Fallout Suit' but clothing can at least prevent it from touching the skin." Of course, your clothing will then be contaminated and should be removed and decontaminated immediately upon returning.
One of the most important things to do is ensure the cleanlyness of your hair. Fallout can fall into the hair.