Posted on 01/19/2014 9:30:36 AM PST by BenLurkin
Should you be in the unfortunate position of being in the area when a nuclear bomb explodes, new research suggests rather than 'sheltering in place' as many emergency programs insist, your best bet for survival might be to run away from the blast.
Sheltering in place is not always the best survival strategy after a nuclear detonation. If you can reach higher quality shelter in less than 30 minutes, you should go for it.
If out in the open, you need to find any shelter at all as quickly as possible.
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Assuming it isn’t a neutron weapon, if you survive the initial blast relatively unscathed, it seems to me you are likely to do okay.
I question the timing of this article. Is the government expecting something? Planning something?
CIA remote viewers seeing an nuclear exchange perhaps? Or is it the ‘looming comet impact’?
If you live in Northern Virginia and see a blast to the east, you may want to do a jig..
The EMP should toast most modern electronic cars. If you have a pre -1965, you might just have to dodge the stalled cars.
The planet oligarchs who run world-wide finance are preparing the reset. Even they know that saddling the grand children of our times with the trillions in debt will not be acceptable and debts would be cancelled by governments smart enough to start their own financing. Self sufficiency in food and fuel (as the US is now capable of) bodes poorly for the finance oligarchs who wield power by debt accumulation.
Probably both plus anticipated civil unrest/economic collapse.
CC
Obama is wrecking everything and putting us in great danger on every level so we should be prepared. Obama is the anti-Christ enabler and making sure things are so screwed up that the anti-Christ will be welcomed to “save us”.
Could be! Having republicants as the political opposition to the democrips doesn’t bode well for this dying Republic, either.
Whats wrong with the space underneath my first class school desk?
What do you do with that count? Is it like lightning and thunder, divide by five? Or divide by something else because it’s a blast not a sound.
I’m not running anywhere for 30 minutes.
Nope, not gonna die exhausted...
You will just fry tired.
Excellent!
That sure would have saved lives and injuries in our only nuclear war to date.
I’ll have to check that out. Read Rtand on Zanzibar decades ago and was impressed.
That would certainly be a courteous thing to do.
Technically, blast waves vary a lot, but the sound of the blast wave travels at about a constant speed.
Sound travels about 340 meters or 372 yards per second, about 3 seconds per kilometer or 5 seconds per mile.
If a nuke detonates 30 miles from your location, the light/thermal heat will arrive almost instantly. The sound/shock wave will not arrive for roughly 2.5 minutes.
30 miles x 5 sec/mile = 150 seconds = 2.5 minutes
Here is a video of 5 men standing at ground zero, as an airburst nuclear weapon detonates above them at 10,000 ft., or 1.9 miles. However, when you see the flash, it is about 14 seconds before the blast wave sound hits them. So I suspect that the nuke was launched in an upward trajectory, and was closer to 3 miles high when it detonated.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlE1BdOAfVc
In practical terms, when a nuke goes off, nobody is going to be thinking about math for quite some time, so just remembering a count of seconds is good enough.
As a final note, it was always said that we should remember the four primary products of a nuclear detonation: blast, heat, radiation, and paperwork.
Good advice. One other thing, two feet of water will reduce gamma by a factor of ten. Four feet of water will reduce dose by a factor of 100. So a good shelter could use water for shielding. Plus it can supply drinking water, which will be in short supply. Properly set up you could make pretty good shielding using filled three and five gallon plastic water bottles or filled water cans.
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