This is a rare wedge issue among boomers. The much derided duck-and-cover drills, which really would have protected kids from the blast effects of a nearby atomic bomb, became nonsensical after the advent of far more powerful thermonuclear weapons that would just vaporize them.https://twitter.com/ktumulty/status/1228668771759542272 …
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So older people remember them, while younger boomers never had them. It is insufficiently appreciated that nuclear weapons arrived in two generations 7 years apart, the second generation a thousand times more powerful than the first, and with no theoretical limit on that power.
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Replying to @Pinboard
I remember the thing from the 80s where someone in the US government said just dig a hole and cover it with a few boards and you’ll be fine. Much derided.
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Replying to @steveportigal
I mean, you'll be fine either way
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