Posted on 03/02/2022 3:38:07 PM PST by Enlightened1
Nuclear explosions can cause significant damage and casualties from blast, heat, and radiation but you can keep your family safe by knowing what to do and being prepared if it occurs.
A nuclear weapon is a device that uses a nuclear reaction to create an explosion.
Nuclear devices range from a small portable device carried by an individual to a weapon carried by a missile.
A nuclear explosion may occur with or without a few minutes warning.
Fallout is most dangerous in the first few hours after the detonation when it is giving off the highest levels of radiation. It takes time for fallout to arrive back to ground level, often more than 15 minutes for areas outside of the immediate blast damage zones. This is enough time for you to be able to prevent significant radiation exposure by following these simple steps:
Get inside the nearest building to avoid radiation. Brick or concrete are best.
Remove contaminated clothing and wipe off or wash unprotected skin if you were outside after the fallout arrived. Hand sanitizer does not protect against fall out. Avoid touching your eyes, nose, and mouth, if possible. Do not use disinfectant wipes on your skin.
Go to the basement or middle of the building. Stay away from the outer walls and roof. Try to maintain a distance of at least six feet between yourself and people who are not part of your household. If possible, wear a mask if you’re sheltering with people who are not a part of your household. Children under two years old, people who have trouble breathing, and those who are unable to remove masks on their own should not wear them.
Stay inside for 24 hours unless local authorities provide other instructions. Continue to practice social distancing by wearing a mask and by keeping a distance of at least six feet between yourself and people who not part of your household.
Family should stay where they are inside. Reunite later to avoid exposure to dangerous radiation.
Keep your pets inside.
Tune into any media available for official information such as when it is safe to exit and where you should go.
Battery operated and hand crank radios will function after a nuclear detonation.
Cell phone, text messaging, television, and internet services may be disrupted or unavailable.
HOW TO STAY SAFE IN THE EVENT OF A NUCLEAR EXPLOSION
Identify shelter locations. Identify the best shelter location near where you spend a lot of time, such as home, work, and school. The best locations are underground and in the middle of larger buildings.
While commuting, identify appropriate shelters to seek in the event of a detonation. Due to COVID-19, many places you may pass on the way to and from work may be closed or may not have regular operating hours.
Outdoor areas, vehicles, mobile homes do NOT provide adequate shelter. Look for basements or the center of large multistory buildings.
Make sure you have an Emergency Supply Kit for places you frequent and might have to stay for 24 hours. It should include bottled water, packaged foods, emergency medicines, a hand-crank or battery-powered radio to get information in case power is out, a flashlight, and extra batteries for essential items. If possible, store supplies for three or more days.
If warned of an imminent attack, immediately get inside the nearest building and move away from windows. This will help provide protection from the blast, heat, and radiation of the detonation.
If you are outdoors when a detonation occurs take cover from the blast behind anything that might offer protection. Lie face down to protect exposed skin from the heat and flying debris. Avoid touching your eyes, nose, and mouth, if possible. If you are in a vehicle, stop safely, and duck down within the vehicle.
After the shock wave passes, get inside the nearest, best shelter location for protection from potential fallout. You will have 10 minutes or more to find an adequate shelter.
Be inside before the fallout arrives. The highest outdoor radiation levels from fallout occur immediately after the fallout arrives and then decrease with time.
Stay tuned for updated instructions from emergency response officials. If advised to evacuate, listen for information about routes, shelters, and procedures.
If you have evacuated, do not return until you are told it is safe to do so by local officials.
Immediately after you are inside shelter, if you may have been outside after the fallout arrived.
Remove your outer layer of contaminated clothing to remove fallout and radiation from your body. Avoid touching your eyes, nose, and mouth, if possible.
Take a shower or wash with soap and water to remove fallout from any skin or hair that was not covered. If you cannot wash or shower, use a wipe or clean wet cloth to wipe any skin or hair that was not covered. Hand sanitizer does not protect against fall out. Avoid touching your eyes, nose, and mouth, if possible. Do not use disinfectant wipes on your skin.
Clean any pets that were outside after the fallout arrived. Gently brush your pet’s coat to remove any fallout particles and wash your pet with soap and water, if available.
It is safe to eat or drink packaged food items or items that were inside a building. Do not consume food or liquids that were outdoors uncovered and may be contaminated by fallout.
If you are sick or injured, listen for instructions on how and where to get medical attention when authorities tell you it is safe to exit. If you are sick and need medical attention, contact your healthcare provider for instructions. If you are at a public shelter, immediately notify the staff at that facility so they can call a local hospital or clinic. If you are experiencing a medical emergency, call 9-1-1 and let the operator know if you have, or think you might have, COVID-19. If you can, put on a mask before help arrives.
Engage virtually with your community through video and phone calls. Know that it’s normal to feel anxious or stressed. Take care of your body and talk to someone if you are feeling upset. Many people may already feel fear and anxiety about the coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19). The threat of a nuclear explosion can add additional stress. Follow CDC guidance for managing stress during a traumatic event and managing stress during COVID-19.
ELECTROMAGNETIC PULSE (EMP) can damage electrical power equipment and electronics several miles out from the detonation and cause temporary disruptions further out.
Last Updated: 02/25/2022
What a steaming pile. The people who put this stuff out are NUTS.
Haha!
Bingo!
The radiation might probably kill covid kooties.
We’re doing well. In one year we went from a vibrant economy, a net exporter of petroleum to runaway inflation,a defeat by seventh century tribal fighters,loss of status on the world stage, to now a threat of a nuclear world war three. At least I’m consoled by the fact that there are no more “mean tweets”.
Welcome to the Monty Python Military
This whole thing is a crock.
Should we ever get to nuclear war, I’d MUCH rather be vaporized instantly than survive and have to live under the NWO that would take control.
BOAKYAG
First check to see if you survived the blast. Then go to step one.
Try to maintain a distance of at least six feet between yourself and people who are not part of your household. If possible, wear a mask if you’re sheltering with people who are not a part of your household.
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STAY INSIDE
Stay inside for 24 hours unless local authorities provide other instructions. Continue to practice social distancing by wearing a mask and by keeping a distance of at least six feet between yourself and people who not part of your household.
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George Orwell’s fiction pales by comparison.
Same here. If they nuke us, I’ll just watch the sky until my lenses fry.
Well if you’re in the blast area social distancing in not an issue. The right words are disintegration or fried come to mind.
If you’re far enough to avoid the bulk of the radiation, I suggest avoiding alliums (garlic, onions, leeks) and mushrooms for a while. They tend to absorb and hold radioactive particles from the soil. They’re even used to clean up irradiated soil because of how well they absorb it.
Squash should be relatively safe. After Hiroshima, pumpkins were one of the few things that grew there that was safe to eat. People would eat the whole plant. Vines, leaves, everything, because there was so little else to eat.
I have no idea what the absorption rates of other plants might be.
Why such a frowny-face attitude?
Turn that frown upside-down.
Watch last night’s SOTU on YouTube. Let Brandon do his magic and pump you up. C’mon man! Go get Hem! We can survive nuclear attacks because we are Americans, by gum.
I live on the edge of the Yellowstone caldera. I figure which ever comes first, Gump was right “sh!t happens”. FJB is living proof.
it is realistically rather unlikely many people will have any power after total nuclear annihilation that follows such a war. Most of the U.S. power grid will collapse both from the EMP and damaged transmission lines. With it goes utilities, commutations, and really most everything else.
That said a lot of people will survive most everyone living in areas of less than 50 thousand people will only have to worry about fallout if down wind of a target.
But you will be rebuilding from scratch with large numbers of desperate people starving to death around you.
Sad how quickly things have gone down hill on the account of 1 corrupt and incumbent buffoon with particularly bad judgement.
It might be safer if we seriously cut down on the power of that office.
You do realize that theses nukes are going for large cities and military bases, and thus will decimate the leftist political base.
If Leftist politicians survive the war in their bunkers they won’t have anyone to support them or their NWO plans.
I don’t think you need to worry about Russian nukes, they don’t have enough nukes to waste on you. As a rule cities with about 50k or less will be untouched.
Way to light up the room! Yes, bad pun intended. 😂
I won’t be rebuilding anything. I’ve lived my life. I’ve worked my @ss off and am still doing so. I’m in a metropolitan area - I’ll likely be vaporized.
Have fun!!
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