Fallout reference 😂

I have very low perception tho, wouldn't know when a bomb has dropped.

GURPS reference, if ya really nasty.

LOL love this comment 😂

Maybe luck is indeed a requirement to survive after all

And the reason you get underneath your desk during an earthquake if you can't get outside.

That doesn't explain the single sheet of newspaper used as protection in that video. And I know, I know, a sheet of paper if enough to stop alpha radiation but I would argue if you're that close to the blast, alpha radiation is the least of your worries.

Better than nothing

Same was used in trenches during both wars. Crawl up underneath something (or special burrow if there is one) and become as small as possible.

@@unvergebeneid Because its better to offer at least a potential solution than just saying nothing.

There was no warning for that incident so people were naturally curious to see what was happening, but in the event of a nuclear attack, hopefully a warning would be issued so people could avoid such activities.

​@@mydogskips2​At 8:16 Kyle gives _"a precious few seconds"_ in his scenario. If you had several minutes of advanced warning, such as an emergency broadcast, you could take far better action than huddling in a corner of your house. _(Such as running outside and crawling into a nearby drainpipe.)_

​@@classifiedveteran9879 precious seconds usually should mean run to the bathroom and get in the tub but if you're warned minutes in advance, go tomthe nearest school with a shelter since most schools have one.

@@iNCoMpeTeNtplAyS Well, for most people a school is miles away, and most schools as far as I know don't come with bomb shelters. Getting there in time seems like an exercise in futility to me. _What if it's a Saturday and they're closed?_ However I do know of a 3-foot-wide culvert right outside my house, and I'm sure that's not uncommon for most people. As long as the shockwave doesn't go down the pipe and shoot you out like an irritated spitwad, I think your chances of survival are significantly better than in any surface structure. I'm not really sure if the USA has a warning system for civilians, like air-raid sirens. I mean, they'd have to periodically test them if they did. I only ever heard. them when I was deployed to Afghanistan. Regardless, my original point still stands. A bright light outside your window will make you get up and look. It's plain human nature.

@@classifiedveteran9879 the blast absolutely will enter any opening and depending on how open and how far away you are, it will get you in the culvert. Luckily, no one will have to bury you since you will decompose quickly there as water passes by so you save on funeral costs

That is a valid idea. However, you can actually have a very good estimate on where a nuke would be landing near you based on important infrastructure, cities, or military bases near you. So if you prepare with a bit of knowledge, you have a high chance to know a general direction of the blast, without even having to see it. Also, like he said, you really want to make sure you're not a point where the air will "compress" and have a higher velocity, therefore causing more harm. And assuming any of the building even survives the blastwave, a closet or bathroom might not be the smartest place in that situation.

@@spyrothedragon5057 That assumes that things are as accurate as those throwing the nukes want it to be. Errors happen and a slight deviation might completely change the direction you as 'collateral damage' might get hit from.

Forget the blankies, hide in the tub. And hope itl's a big old iron or steel and ceramic tub, not fiberglas. 😂

so we're right back to "duck and cover" then huh. you know maybe those scientists had the right idea in the first place, hm?

​@@spyrothedragon5057 yeah but predicting which way a tornado is coming from is a lot harder. They're sensitive to a lot of things so they swerve and dance as they go

Same happened for my dad

Why would you get in trouble for asking a question that is justifiable to ask if you're an intelligent, thinking person instead of a drone that just absorbs whatever propaganda the government pumps out?

I lived in barrow from 88- 92 what a fricking trip. I can honestly say that my kindergarten through 3rd grade was Siberia and different than 99.999% of people

Gettin' your ass fried 1st.....Or would you wanna' go Face 1st in that split millisecond? 💥🤔 Hmmm...........

I had a stroke trying to read your comment.

A corner on the far side of the building would probably be safer since it has less of a chance to collapse and bury you. The question is if you can make it there in time or if the blast wave gets you on your way there.

The likelihood of walls remaining standing was also in my mind. I wonder if that was factored in at all? It's why I selected Room 3....but I would probably be pulped by my decision.

It depends how far away from the blast you are, really. I don't get the hate for "duck and cover" when that's pretty much exactly what we tell people to do in the event of an Earthquake.

With murrican walls seems plausible

You want to be in the corner closest to the blast-facing opening that’s the deepest inside a structure, that way the corner should stay standing even as both walls collapse.

I send you the absolute sincere. God bless you 🫂

Y’all got regenerating land Y’all fine

I’m still not convinced that was an accident.

@@EphemeralProductions why not?

Your dad must have been an awesome guy!

Wow

if its located outside the blast zone why would you need a blast bunker?(im not being quirky, im asking seriously)

@@kittybitts567 he was the best.

​@@_Shadows__fallout shelter, not blast bunker. The idea is to not die of radiation poisoning after surviving the blast.

I live near an important military base that would also be on the first strike list. I'm within range that a nuke would wipe me out instantly. It's an oddly comforting thought almost. I won't know what hit me. I would just be dead and not have to live through the aftermath. I only hope that other people around me either don't know, or do know but feel that same level of comfort. The only sad thing is that I have family and friends who live elsewhere who would grieve for me.

@@migitri I find nothing at all comforting about any part of this scenario, and would never want to live near such a place if I had any choice.

@@Nethershaw Would you rather live in a world post nuclear attacks contending with radiation poisoning, starvation, dehydration, and massive civil unrest, or just perish instantly? You wouldn't have to live through the suffering of a world wrecked by nuclear war. You wouldn't even feel it. One moment you exist, the next you don't. When it comes to how to death, I think the quicker the better. I don't want to die of cancer or dementia, I don't want to die in a car crash or be stabbed to death. I want to just be gone without a hint of pain. Being vaporized in a nuclear blast has to be one of the quickest ways to go out.

​​​@@Nethershaw Keep in mind that the general theory of nuclear war remains based on the principle of mutually assured destruction. It's not that controversial to suggest that nobody (or at least not the vast majority of people) would actually survive a full-scale nuclear war, it's just a matter of who dies last. From that perspective, being vaporized instantly is massively preferable to the lingering, painful death of either radiation poisoning or starvation/exposure after nuclear winter renders Earth incompatible with life - "not dying" is not an option.

@@shadowgod1009 if you look at the inverse square law way more people will be seared and die from burns than vaporised. Being near ground zero is the most impossible way to survive but hopefully least painful death.

Yeah, it still has me questioning the relationship between pressure and velocity. In a sense, the building acts as a venturi, where there is higher speed but lower pressure. Won't standing in the low speed corners collapse your lungs?

So you're saying the best corner to be in instantly becomes the worst corner to be in?

@@unvergebeneid Maybe. I'd guess it depends how close to the blast you are. Nearer the blast the explosion causes superheated gasses to rise upwards, with air very quickly rushing inward to normalize the pressure... this would explain why buildings nearer the blast are collapsed towards the blast site. If you're this close to the blast site you're probably fried from radiation and heat anyway. However, further away from the blast site you're mainly just dealing with the concussive force moving outwards.

@@quintessenceSL No. Those corners are essentially uninvolved in the blast wave and remain at atmospheric pressure. This was why the army guys they put in trenches during the shots in the 60’s were OK. The blast wave traveled over the top without affecting them. They did need to be below the lip and against the forward wall. In the model, velocity is slowed after flowing through the orifice (doorway). Since the temperature and volume remained the same, pressure had to increase. PSI is pounds per square inch, so you have to look at how many square inches. The famous house being blown away had a face on the order of hundreds of thousands of square inches, so it was rapidly dismantled by 3 psi causing nearly a million pounds of pressure on the exterior wall. Then a dust cloud comes in and the video is cut. What you don’t see is the dust cloud reversing and the debris being blown back towards the blast. This back and forth can happen several times as shown in the video of the blast against trees. This isn’t trees waiving back and forth in the wind, this is the over/underpressure sloshing back and forth like ripples in a pond, and is perfectly capable of snapping off high rise buildings that stand up to hurricane force winds (like in Miami). The Nevada desert is famously short on trees, so they cut down trees and then buried their lower trunks in concrete. Otherwise they would have been snapped off at the first underpressure. If you survive the fireball and the thermal flash, the best place to be would be in the bottom of a ditch in an open field with no buildings nearby. Maybe. The problem is the thermal flash is accompanied by a neutron wave and a fast gamma wave, so there is a high possibility of dying of radiation poisoning even if you are upwind of the fallout. Then you have to survive the collapse of civilization Kyle talks about. I think I would rather eat the fireball, since it would be so fast you wouldn’t even know it happened. The only way to really thrive in a post nuclear apocalypse is to prepare now. Build a homestead and make it as self sufficient as possible. It must be upwind and far from potential targets (maps are around). It must also be in an area with many homesteads around it, since it can’t be made completely self sufficient. This doesn’t mean going Amish. It just means you have to know how to repair your equipment, or even how to build it from scratch. I would have at a minimum a forge, a complete blacksmithing shop a complete machine shop, the ability to rewind motors and make wire, and as many ways to generate electricity as possible (windmills, hydro, solar). Also weave cloth, make pottery, glasswork, woodworking. The list goes on. Think appropriate tech levels. Motors haven’t changed much since 1950. With plans and enough metals you could build a 1960s diesel. A biodiesel skid would take 90s/2000 level tech. I would also stockpile 200 years worth of spare parts, and go to school to learn to use all that equipment. At the same time I would be learning how to raise/slaughter livestock and how to farm. Also, everyone involved will need to learn how to fight off cannibal hordes. This would take millions of dollars and multiple people willing to dedicate their lives to the project, which is why it hasn’t been done. Like I said, I would rather eat the fireball.

Split the difference and get along the bottom of one of the walls, covering your head and neck to limit damage from flying debris. Almost like ... duck and cover, innit?

It's true. They told us, "the living will envy the dead." None of us thought we would make it to adulthood. Now that we have we still don't know what to do.

As a millennial I grew up in a world where the collective older generation has undergone a mass delusion that the fear of nuclear war ended with the Berlin wall. My whole life has been new countries (small ones) getting nuclear weapons, and having access to deliver them to the U.S. Meanwhile, nothing is done to prepare. Houses are still built above ground. We don't educate our kids on what to do. Countries that give up their nuclear weapons like Libya and Ukraine get invaded as a reward, insuring dis-armament will never happen. Nuclear war seems like an inevitable fate. And the older generation still talks about how they use to be afraid of nuclear war back in the day, even now when North Korea can hit the mainland. Just letting you know my perspective as a millennial.

@@theriverschool822 I think boomers had a something to rally behind/put faith in (aka "winning" a nuclear war). Millennials and Gen-Z have extremely chaotic threats to worry about (rogue nuclear threats, or even just dying in a school shooting). In a lot of ways, I think millennial and Gen-Z threats, are SCARIER. Gen-X, however, had a strange little sliver in time when human civilization might be wiped out in under an hour in a weirdly "organized" way (an all-out war between the two global super-powers) and we had no hope or thoughts of survival. I do think your threats are scarier. But Gen-X grew up in a fairly fatalistic way. It probably has a lot to do with why Gen-X is so cynical and never believed we could change things. Personally, millennials and Gen-Z have taught me, we were WRONG. Like any generation we COULD have at least TRIED to change the world, and probably shouldn't have been as cynical.

Sounds like we aren’t so different after all. I’m on the cusp of millennial/Gen-Z and that’s exactly how I feel about climate change…

@@theriverschool822 If we were at the point that we should be living underground, I think we would have glassed the shit out of North Korea a long time ago. But I don't think that's were we are.

Yes, there was a weird sense of comfort knowing that I was within the fireball radius as a kid in the 80s.

although you wouldn't see an icbm coming in. perhaps a speck of the re-entry vehicle, but it would probably be more like the lights being turned out before the signal even makes it back to the brain - which sounds ideal.

Plot twist: the end of the Sopranos was in fact a huge atomic blast followed by a beautiful mushroom cloud that Tony (and everyone in that restaurant) never got a chance to see.

If ever you saw "The Day After" as a kid, you should try to look up the British version, "Threads." It was that movie that convinced me that I wouldn't want to survive a nuclear war, because they showed the consequences in graphic detail

@@Mechknight73 wha...is it that bad??? Oh god

average fallout easter egg

Dont forget pipe gun and Fart Man launcher.

As soon as the warning is given, we all steal a bunch of mannequins.

@@alexandertiberius1098 I already have a mannequin in my front hall closet, wearing a bra & nothing else, no legs or head, just torso & arms. Also in that closet is my gun safe. So that'll be a nice little jumpscare for any raiders.

@@BlueRoseFaery I have so many questions, and I'm terrified of asking any of them... Fine work. 👌

Exactly 💯. A Thermo Nuclear shockwave is ... 1000lb per square inch Legend has it that Chuck Norris Taught that punch to the bomb

IDK, if you're fast enough you might get out a whole "Oh shit!"

You would most likely get warning before... The duck and cover thing was from the 1950`s when there was high chance of no warning before.

Keep the New Covenant Passover to survive a Nuclear Blast!

Why mouth open??

@@SkepticalTeacher think its to allow air to escape from your lungs when you are suddenly hit by a lot of air pressure.

@@SkepticalTeacher What "Don't ghost/ban me" said, but also to - dunno how to explain it - reduce the differential pressure between the in/outside of your eardrums and prevent them from bursting.

Well ... Kyle, you and most of the others just ignore the ONLY humane and viable option: Visit the next mountain, a high or exposed landmark and welcome a quick and relatively painless end. The delusions and absurd "solutions" you follow aren't an inch away from those laughable depictions of the 1950ies. **facepalm** But ignore me. Hope and Luck ... and a little belief in Sky-Daddy will help. Like always!:)))

Even if it falls over, the corner closest to the blast will have the lowest velocity debris and the least amount in your way to try to dig yourself out of. The corner will also have the most reinforcement, so if the building does collapse, the corner is most likely to be a void in the rubble. Having said that, if all you have is a framed wall with vinyl siding, you're kind of knackered...

@@cbsboyer theres a chance it doenst just 'fall over' but that the blast wave blows it apart

In the USA every house will be gone they are all made of paper ^^

Yes, I was about to comment just that, what are the chances that a building you reside in can withstand such power. Not many I would assume and lets not forget if one bomb drops then thousands will follow ending humanity as we know it or best case scenario sending us back to the dark ages.

This

Keep the New Covenant Passover to survive a Nuclear Blast!

It's _something._ 🤷‍♂️ Regardless of futility, something is better than nothing when the alternative is willing dying.

It wasn’t futile. Open lacerations or burns in a contaminated environment can be lethal even if the injury itself is relatively minor.

Fellow Cter here. If you look at maps of 80s nuclear war strike zones CT is unfortunately yes…almost painted entirely. Even if we didn’t suffer as many direct explosions the fallout from Manhattan would blow through at least up to central CT if the wind was taking it. Groton sub base is a target. Sadly for me I live somewhat close to Sikorsky which is likely a target as well. Anyone in CT is pretty doomed unless you live up in the rural Easter corner of the state.

@@archdukefranzferdinand4429 Yep. I raced BMX in the late 70s and early 80s and I raced at a track called "The Nike Site" in Manchester. Basically, the starting gate was on the side of an underground Nike launch facility. Just behind the starting gate was a giant concrete slab with various hatches that we'd just walk on when going to get a hotdog, or walking to the car. 9/11 was weird, too when I worked at Pratt & Whitney in East Hartford. Knowing that folks were flying planes into stuff and sitting in a cubicle in a defense contractor's building that you can see from space was disturbing.

To be fair, even knowing where to go like a basement or a tornado shelter (for those who have one) is better to know for if shit ever gets that bad. It's nothing like a full-blow fallout shelter, but it's better than nothing

In Switzerland all houses are required by law to have a shelter installed. There are also huge shelters dug out into the mountains.

you cant mention how duck and cover actually works because that goes against the Currently Established Narrative. if you deviate from it then no one will listen to you.

Well if you unlucky and blast will begin right now, its best you can do. It came from times when sudden strike still was possible.

Duck and cover when Goose and expose walks in

because the desk will protect you from glass and debris. one of the main issues is you have precious little time to react to the explosion so getting under your desk or diving into the nearest ditch or behind the closest wall is faster than trying to assess what's going on and finding optimal cover.

Going to school in a giant concrete prison doesn't sound conducive to learning and education.

@@cccycling5835 And then the university, that resembles actual prison by design and sometimes both were made by same people.

To take that further, it only takes about 2.5psi of overpressure to blow out a brick wall and 5psi will completely mangle steal beams and literally rip any structure up from it's foundation. There is very little chance of surviving the blast wave

I remember a UK educational film about that. They had 1 family that survived the blast, but the narration continued "This family is safe, and will remain safe until the debris of the rest of the block drops on them.

You can see US military field manuals about operations in CBRN environments to see more details about the specific survival odds estimates based on the types of injuries sustained in a contaminated environment.

It's also as a protection from further away from the blast, where the shockwave may not be lethal outright, but there would still be a risk of flying debris (especially window glass) or a building collapse. In that case, having a desk between you and a falling roof could very likely save your life.

There's government videos out there with 'duck and cover' used in open fields for adults...

@@stevenshea990 Yeah, it also stops people from starting to run around searching for shelter. Which is quiet the killer, because people get caught up in the panic, block other people and then get caught in the open. it never was going to save everyone, but it statistically increases the rates of survival by a pretty big margin.

I remember that training. Good times 😊

I would personally let it just kill me, fuck all of that suffering shit

We had lots of fun

Where in actual fact you wouldn't survive this and its just to make people feel better. Giving the illusion that something can be done. Basic training was fun though, but is just that, basic.

@@MolitovMichelleX if the training did not provide some practical benefit for soldiers then the government would not be spending millions on it every year. the strategy of duck and cover is based on sound science, and gives you the best chance of living possible despite what propagandists will tell you.

You think The Day After was bad? Try Threads.

@@Croz89 honestly i think threads is *too* bad. it assumes that people would totally stop trying to improve their lives, and be content living in total squalor. i don’t think that’s how it’d happen, especially with government contingency plans.

Me too.

​@@floo1465 ermmm Google - Struggle for Survival Written by Steve Fox Sorry 😞

Keep the New Covenant Passover to survive a Nuclear Blast!

Well, a good first step that'll save your ass more times than it won't is finding the deepest, sturdiest basement and hiding there for a few days. By that point the deadliest radiation will have cleared, and it'll be a bit clearer in which direction the fallout went. If you can figure out it's direction, immediately head the opposite way. After that it's really only a matter of not dying to starvation or exposure or something else horrible wherever you end up.

The thing is, if you're in an area where it actually matters, you'll have different things to worry about. Good place to go is Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum. After the explosion, people were walking around like zombies (if they're lucky), disoriented and severely injured. Super lucky people were able to slowly make their way to other parts of the city to search for family, but really if you survived the blast and are still in any mind to prepare, you are probably far enough away that you can find a working car and drive far away before the fallout hits. I'd wager nobody in the actually relevant zone of not-quite-dead-but-too-close-to-flee would be in the right mind to prepare or even get into shelter at all.

The absolute first step is to look for any remaining media on what the wind direction was. Nothing matters if you go the wrong way. Heavy winds to west, lay low for couple of days and then start to move. Rain and mist with no winds, go anywhere right now (rain drops particles much faster, mist means radioactive particles lingering within the small mist droplets, etc). It all depends on the winds and weather, don't want to go into wrong direction or wait when moving immediately would be best.

To clarify what I mean by zombies, most likely severe burns, ears blown out and bleeding (last time I checked you need them for basic things like balance), possibly heavily irradiated and puking. You're ears aren't bleeding and your mind is somewhat clear? Great, your car likely still drives (even if the blast or heat radiation blew your tires, so what), so you better hurry away as far as you can rather than bunker up, IMO. No science, just feels

@@alaric_ Good points. Hard to say at which distance from the epicenter any of this is relevant, too.

Keep the New Covenant Passover to survive a Nuclear Blast!

Yes. Everyone forgets that part of the training is to turn your back to the windows and cover your neck against flying glass. It's about minimizing injuries in all sorts of sudden events. BTW, I never saw the duck and cover cartoon, and never did such drills in New England, even during the Cuban Missile Crisis. In 1962, we moved to LA, and I learned the drill. In an earthquake zone, near the harbor and its rail terminals, the procedure made perfect sense in case of nearby explosions, too. It wasn't about surviving Ground Zero.

haha I'm from SD too and i remember those drills! i was surprised when i left Cali and none of my friends who'd grown up elsewhere had any idea what i was talking about.

It's actually to make your corpse easier to find.

Orange County here. I remember those days.

Keep the New Covenant Passover to survive a Nuclear Blast!

Yup, tell that to all the American and Canadian Soldiers that were forced to stay in trenches while a nuk3 was set off, then leave the trench and walk toward ground zero. Only wearing your regular combat fatigues, helmet, and rifle, don't worry, you didn't need a gas mask as you weren't issued one

To be specific, sharp-cornered, 90-degree, trench was reducing the pressure by a factor of 7 (almost - 6.66), at 6 meters (20ft) from the blast. 60 psi (414 kPa). Soft-cornered trench was reducing it by a factor closer to 5 (5.26). 76 psi (524 kPa). Effectively, standing behind a sharp corner at 6 meters from the blast reduced the blast to the level of standing just over 9 meters away from the blast in a straight trench. At 6 meters from a blast in a straight trench pressure was at 397 psi (2737 kPa). Charge used was 11 kg of TNT. C-4 would create a blast about 1.3 times stronger for same weight, semtex about 1.25 times stronger.

Tin foil helmets to reflect residential or radiation. I have many to sell.

Hey Kyle, have you covered the danger of the nuke in the fallout 4 opening?years later, I swear nobody agrees

Not stay longer then 2 days, all radioactive material by that time would fall on ground in form of dust. Its best to just leave blast sight asap.

Easy solution: Move the desk to the corner and THEN duck and cover

​@@alexturnbackthearmy1907you should not leave any shelter while there is still radioactive dust in the air... Leaving asap is the worst advice lol

@@janitorizamped what if someone has access to some nbc equipment like a gas mask and poncho?

@@galacticbananastopmotions7292 if you are in the range of the fallout, you should be trying to stay put if at all possible

No. It's the same reason you'd do it during an earthquake. One more thing between you and anything heavy that might come down on your head. The same reason you stand in a doorway or run outside during an earthquake too.

I don't think you'd be seeing much of anything before you died instantly

I wonder if there was ever a time where American school children had to do both nuclear drills and active shooter drills. Or was it only ever one or the other?

It was all propaganda man. The Government knew perfectly well that Duck & Cover was complete BS and wouldn't save anyone, but it gave the illusion of safety and alleviated some fears. In other words they just wanted to stop people from panicking more than anything.

@@DraccoXX The vast majority of people will not be vaporized by the bombs. Then there is blast which is largely survivable for humans. The big problem is the debris and shrapnel, which duck and cover does help with. If the bombs fall you have a good 70%-90% chance of not being instantly killed by them.

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The most dramatic floods that would happen here are storm tides, and with rising sea levels they become more and more common.

right yes because a tsunami or flood is something everyone experiences on a yearly basis. not.

@@aurelia8028 I mean…depending on where you live, yeah it is something you experience every year

@@aurelia8028 The simulation is about being in the safest spot during a nuclear blast wave, but you're drawing the line at tsunamis & floods? More people experience the latter than the former regardless of how few those people may be.

Im also from Poland but closer to russia

As do I! 😢

After the blast wave you have ~20 mins before the radioactive fallout starts to fall. After the blast wave (where you should, even in the corner, put your thumbs in your ears and then with all your hand cover your hears to prevent permanent ear loss), you have to gather supplies, as mush as you can (at least water), and try to hide underground. If you cant hide underground, choose the the room that you can hermetically close as much as possible. Then comes the wait. Starting from the first moment, every day that you manage to survive in your shelter decrease exponentially the possibility of radiation poisoning. You should adventure outsite after AT LEAST 3 days, better if seven. After that every further day in you shelter become less effective. If you go outside, clean you clothes frequently and you have to breath through a wet rag. This is maybe excessive, but is the best that you can do. Sorry for errors in grammar

Pole living in Wrocław. No idea what we'd do. Go to Germany to family or to family in France. Have an emergency bag ready to run if the car isn't an option.

​@@AteraT Also: *DO* wash your hair frequently to remove fallout contamination, but do *NOT* use conditioner, as it can bind radioactive particles to your hair, where they can continue irradiating your head.

Keep the New Covenant Passover to survive a Nuclear Blast!

well yes, but also corners of buildings/rooms usually have more structural support, so it would be the best bet either way.

to see why duck and cover is important, watch any handheld video of a large explosion. Beruit, that one in China, that one in Texas, etc.

@@aidanmackenzie5126 in this case, a room corner further away should be sufficient, but here's where the simulation limitations comes into the problem: not every wall or building has the same structural integrity. If we take all the factors into consideration, having more walls between you and the blast + choosing a corner next to the room's entrance to get maximum structural integrity + having a window opposite to the blast point of origin should maximize the survivability, because the air pressure will try to get out on the path with the least resistance. Having more walls though would be your best chance of survival, but I think it's more of a matter of luck if there is no warning before the nuke detonates, since the blast will travel so fast everyone would get evaporated before realizing there was a nuclear attack. Otherwise, if you can get a warning and choose where to hide, being underground should be even better, because the ground should force the blastwave to "ride the surface" and hugging the wall under the ground level will give you the best survival chance of survival. I wonder if there were plenty of simulations of these kinds of buildings: with half the floor under the ground level, fully under, with small windows vs. no windows etc.

There is also the possibility that the blast wave hitting the wall will cause it to shift even a short distance with enough force to cause serious injury. Leaning against the wall might break your spine. Better to lie down flat on the floor nearby.

You will save us all, thank you.

Kick it's butt!

Well, it makes sense for an earthquake, using the desk as a barrier from falling debris. (But high school students are screwed, since those chairs with the tiny little attached work surface are pretty much useless as protection.)

Well seeing flash is not a good help. Also you will most likely will be aware of incoming nuke 20 min before hit via any device (phone, air raid siren, radio, TV, just anything).

@@alexturnbackthearmy1907 If that's the case, you should probably get your electronics (if even one of them survives you'll get a huge advantage in things like knowing where the air is), sugar/fruit/other food that's energetic and will last a long time and then rush to the basement ASAP. Unless you're close to the area that's being stricken (jokes on you friend from high school that got an international scholarship at NYU) in which case you should ascertain your chances of driving as far away as possible before rushing to the nearest hole, and do whatever last rites your religion suggests if they're 0. If you do only have a few seconds, though OP is correct. Then again if the situation is so bad strategic nuclear strikes are being thrown at cities (assuming you aren't next to a military target) better information has already been distributed

Just saying, in all out nuclear war not every target is going to be just military in nature. Key civilian infrastructure will also be targeted, including major population centers. And military targets are not going to be the typical Army Reserve or Air National Guard bases. Those are everywhere, and aren't important enough to be individually targeted. Military targets are going to be places of significance. Like Whiteman AFB in Missouri, they house the US's nuclear B-2 bombers. Or Fort Bragg in North Carolina, the largest military base in the world. Peterson Space Force Base in Colorado, Where NORAD is based. Any moderate to large sized Navy bases will be hit. You don't have to be afraid just because there is a military presence in your city, that alone is not enough to make you a target. As a hypothetical, living in a port city with absolutely zero military around would be far, far more dangerous than living in a city with an average Army or Air Force base. Survival will largely be based on location, the further you are from a strategically important location to the US and it's ability to operate the safer you are. Besides that, your odds of survival are basically determine by lady luck. If you couldn't tell, this stuff really interests me. I probably think about it too much, but I can't help it.

@@shadowgod1009 He, he, nice to be living in one of key cities for russian military.

​@@alexturnbackthearmy1907it takes 30 minutes for publicly known ICBMs to make it to US from Russian mainland. Any nukes in a first strike will have way less than a 20 minute warning for civilians.

Difference would be straight line vs rotary motion. It's why for the same windspeed, tornadic is more destructive than straight line. Also, the blast is very fast by comparison, whereas tornadoes can crawl at 5 mph. That would all affect the simulation.

Tbh, I would love to be some cool skeleton lying awkwardly on the burned couch

Just remember to carry a spare pair of eyeglasses or you might end up like Burgess Meredith.

Just get a copy of the Wasteland Survival Guide

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Unplug your car batteries, hide in the basement, wait a day, then make like hell for the smart people who don't live in cities

The question should be do you even want to?

Like with demon core, the worst part for radiation exposure is supercriticality moment. Core by itself is not that bad. And most (by diagram) radioactive material is already burned out, the remaining mass is so insanely small... Yet there are more people concerned about radiation effects.

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Putin have 200 megaton nuclear warheads. He can to detonate it at Moscow at himself territory and Whole World will die, even didn't have to send it. And consequences will kills everyone at the world. May be it can break the earth apart.

You are not Heisenberg!!!

@@Seaslaya ?

@@MattH-wg7ou have you never seen breaking bad? They visit the Nuclear Science Museum multiple times in the show and it's actually where Walter White gets his druglord name

If a building can't take the blast, you don't have to worry about it.

I'm not sure how it's practical though. I'm currently sitting in the middle of a room with windows, doors, and hallways on both sides. In the corner is the TV that displayed this video. HA HA! 😄 I think Colin Furze has a better chance of survival with his underground layer. 😏

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do you have a link?

Most likely survivors are in what’s called the “Global South”. Places like Africa, Central America, and Southeast Asia. Ironically, countries that don’t have nukes are more likely to survive a nuclear war between nuclear states.

Who said he was a supervillain? He's just getting rid of those damn pests, no need to get worried about anything. In fact, you might even want to thank him for all the work he is doing.

Yeah, for example if you live In/right next to San Diego/New York, *your dead.* But if you live in a place like Wyoming, you have a pretty good chance

​@@Nolan-Wnot necessarily, in nuclear attacks more rural areas in the great planes have a high chance of being bombed due to high amounts of missle silos being located there

You really think, that big cities are the primary targets?

@@jameskastle599 well we'll find out

@@jameskastle599 It stands to reason that, if a nuclear nation intended to take out the most people per strike in enemy territory, they would attack high population densities. You could also decrease your chances by avoiding other locations, such as military bases. Besides, I never said large cities are the primary targets. I simply stated that living in larger cities increases you're chance of death via nuclear warhead.

LMFAO

Beat me too it.

Or that kid in a fridge.

Well according to the paper that might actually be a viable option The other options are the cuboard or any room (preferably underground) that has no windows and a reinforced door So if you just so happen to have a bunker or dungeon in your house go there instead

@@someoneudontknow3709 Any basement will be good in fact.

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I put my hamster in a sock and slammed it against the furniture.

yup, thought it might be a trick question because of that potential collapse of the exterior walls to the other rooms.

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Railg-orillas.

Hey, man! Good to see you! Sad you’re not making content anymore, but I hope you’re doing alright

@@KainaX122 Well I'm not making my own content anymore, but I'm a regular member of a TTRPG podcast called Tabletalk, Discussion and Discourse, so you could check that out if it interests you. And yeah, I'm doing pretty good, thanks for asking!

@@PrinceBoo21 glad to hear. Also, I’ll check it out

@@PrinceBoo21 Somehow, I hadn't heard of the Windscale incident. Thanks for giving me something to research. One of the defenses to the "but, Chernobyl!" anti-nuclear argument is to point out that Chernobyl suffered from a poorly-regulated design that no one uses today (and which no "Free World" country used at the time). The newer designs make a Chernobyl-type incident effectively impossible, meaning that the worst that could happen would be something like Three Mile Island or Fukushima (so the argument goes). I'd like to see if that argument works for Windscale (since 'twas such a long time ago) or not.

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Maybe for you. I'd rather live through radiation poisoning than die. I don't care what torture is waiting for me, I'd rather live.

I think its possible for accidents to happen. If the situation at hand is just 2 countries with lots of nuclear warheads going at war(usa and russia) than yeah it would be hopeless.

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That would be the blue areas.

you could watch and listen... it's extremely apparent unless you lack basic comprehension.

Also he could've mentioned that you shouldn't hold your breath and ideally plug your ears.. honestly a little disappointed by this upload.

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That's good advice if you have an old-fashioned cast iron tub, but the modern fiberglass ones probably wouldn't do a whole lot.

I mean if you have a bathtub that can be tipped over then the bathroom is probably best although you should see about closing the door first.