How to survive a nuclear blast

[Smoke]

http://duncanlong.com/science-fiction-fantasy-short-stories/nuke.htm

Whether it were the result of a terrorist attack using a "brief case" nuclear device or the first salvo of an all out nuclear war, what you did during the first few moments following a nuclear blast would mean the difference between life and death.

It's important to realize that such weapons will be relatively small. This reason for this is that when a bomb increases in size by a factor of ten, its destructiveness is only roughly doubled. Militaries employ large numbers of smaller nukes rather than just a few large ones; smaller bombs and warheads are more easily delivered and give more bang for the buck.

Terrorists would use small bombs for much the same reason. Small nukes would do a lot of damage while being easy to conceal and deliver. While the anti-nuclear activists of the 1980s liked to describe the devastation the largest possible nuclear bomb would cause, in reality much smaller bombs would be used in almost any attack you might face in the future.

 

[Ennui]

just read all of it, excellent (albeit a little odd)

 

[Jintor]

Hide under the desk, people!

 

[Atomic_Piggy]

Lucky I live in an insignificant town away from any major town, port, military complex, ect.

 

[Pesmerga]

I live 30 minutes away from an important airforce base.

Wooo.

 

[Sedako]

Lucky I live in an insignificant town away from any major town, port, military complex, ect.

I hope I'm not the only one that sees the irony in this.

 

[Pesmerga]

I don't, please expound.

 

[Sedako]

I don't, please expound.

Check his name/avatar.

 

[Pesmerga]

Oh.

*shrug*

 

[watermonster]

"at its peak, four times as bright as the sun"

You'd have a fair chance of being blinded, so DON'T look at the pretty mushroom cloud in the sky.

There's some really interesting stuff in that article.

 

[Unfocused]

Lucky I live in an insignificant town away from any major town, port, military complex, ect.

That you know of! They might as well be making nukes under your town!

 

[Smoke]

Nice to see we're all thinking along the same lines.

 

[Nemesis6]

Remember, kids: Duck, and...

 

[Smoke]

Quack.

 

[Pesmerga]

Quack quack

 

[Emporius]

Check his name/avatar.

Because of course England has no major towns,ports, military complexes, etc

 

[Smoke]

Because of course England has no major towns,ports, military complexes, etc

You totally missed the point. Look at the thread title, then look at his name, and avatar.

 

[Druckles]

Glad I moved away from Manchester. Psht, who'd want to nuke little ole Cambridge?

 

[Emporius]

You totally missed the point. Look at the thread title, then look at his name, and avatar.

Ah, I see now. That's my one free card, its early

 

[SimonomiS]

First: Do not ever, ever look toward a nuclear flash.

Damnit, now that they've said not to do it I know I'm going to.

 

[Druckles]

Damnit, now that they've said not to do it I know I'm going to.

That's what was annoying about the Heroes finale. Everyone was going - oo, look a nuclear explosion. And I was like "Omgz you fookin' noobs! You should be blind n' shit!"

 

[SimonomiS]

That's what was annoying about the Heroes finale. Everyone was going - oo, look a nuclear explosion. And I was like "Omgz you fookin' noobs! You should be blind n' shit!"

That and nobody but them seemed to notice it. I can't imagine a nuclear explosion above New York not causing a little tiny bit of a fuss.

Doesn't stop Heroes being awesome though.

 

[Smoke]

You just put me even more off watching that crap.

 

[Irksome]

I live 45 minutes away from 2 large cities; Philadelphia and New York.

:rolling:

 

[lePobz]

So basically, if a nuke goes off ... duck and cover, and dont touch the radioactive fallout.

Well, it's a good thing you posted this article, because I was planning on taking photos of the nuke blast, and collecting bits of fallout to sell on ebay.

Should be called Survival for Dummies.

 

[soulslicer]

That is an awesome read. Reminds me of HEROES

 

[Ravioli]

lol they say that the heat it creates is hotter than the surface of the sun, yet they say that just simply duck and cover might keep you alive with a few skinburns.

I think you all need to watch this...just look at the buildings being destroyed like paper toys...and the heat litteraly vaporizes the paint of the cars.

http://my.break.com/content/view.aspx?ContentID=97832

 

[Druckles]

That's what was annoying about the Heroes finale. Everyone was going - oo, look a nuclear explosion. And I was like "Omgz you fookin' noobs! You should be blind n' shit!"

That is an awesome read. Reminds me of HEROES

 

[Atomic_Piggy]

That you know of! They might as well be making nukes under your town!

*Imagines building, road or field lifting off on a hinge and a nuke emerging with a tag "Eat this you N. Korean bastards!" or something.*

 

[<RJMC>]

bah

all what is going to be left will be just your spine and skull after the explotions

 

[Druckles]

Sounds like some HL2 gibbing going on...

 

[Baserape>]

I plan on surfing the Shockwave to enter the guinness book of records and fingers crossed. Make a speedy getaway. I'm going to glue some ski boots to my surf board and wait in my back garden, naked in anticipation of a nuclear blast.

 

[Druckles]

Naked? You plan on catching some mutation waves in the blast?

X-Men here you come!

 

[soulslicer]

And the silver surfer was born...