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The technical rationale behind "duck and cover," in one simple graph: (Defense Civil Preparedness Agency, 1973)pic.twitter.com/n4q7sa7RZK
(The dotted vertical line is meant to indicate 5 psi, which they say is the "average vulnerability." The solid horizontal line at 50% is just the median lethal overpressure. The report claims this is based on animal studies in actual nuclear tests.)
Shouldn't be too complex an exercise to project the area-between-curves over the overpressure effects of a Cold War scenario on Nukemap, to calculate how many lives could have been saved by increasing "duck and cover" compliance from, say, 10 to 60 percent.
Right. I have a number of Civil Defense related things I'd like to integrate into NUKEMAP, this is sort of one them.
I’ve always felt that duck-and-cover has received far more ridicule than it deserved.
We practiced it for earthquakes and active shooters; in Russia, it saved the lives of 40 kids during the Chelyabinsk meteor! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chelyabinsk_meteor …
"How silly they were back then trying to reduce casualties beyond ground zero! Everyone knows when the bombs fall there's nothing you can do to increase survivability no matter where you are!"
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