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How to Survive a Nuclear Bomb: An update on " Duck and Cover"

Posted March 13, 2014 10:51 AM

From Gizmag Emerging Technology Magazine:

The best advice for surviving a nuclear bomb is to be somewhere else when it goes off. If that doesn't work out for you, though, a recent study carried out at the USDOE's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) provides some simple guidance for maximizing your chances of survival.

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03/13/2014 10:41 PM

Ultimately humans will end up becoming cavemen. This was the starting point and perhaps the doom point as well.

It is not difficult to say that only few bad people Alien minds on the earth are fixing the future of the rest of the entire population of humans and other life on earth, but who will bell the cat?

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03/13/2014 10:50 PM

I remember to this poster from around 1969 and instructions of what to do,

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03/16/2014 3:19 PM

What a load of rubbish.

Step 2 - ?

A nuclear attack would be the ideal time to take up smoking and drinking.

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03/18/2014 10:05 AM

Never mind "how". Sort out "why" first.

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03/18/2014 6:06 PM

I'm surprised there hasn't been more response to this blog, seems like it would be a hot topic in more ways than one. especially now with Russia in the mist of land grabbing?

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