[bunkerhill7]

We done got bomb shelters built here dug into in the mountains in the 1950`s during civil defense exercises against Russian nuclear attack, still in use today.
What you talkin` about?

Evidently it would appear that somebody won`t find it on the internet coz there was no internet then and those people that built them kept it a secret and they is dead and gone by now exceptin` some of us stll got the bomb shelters intact and ready. Um I was there when they built`em. We wuz trained during the GOC ground Observer Corps to spot bears Bombers USSR comin` over and we wuz required to build and stock these bomb shelters, NOT “fallout shelters.” They was designed to withstand an atomic burst close by coz they is solid concrete into the mountain and it`s only 200 yards from my house. You ain`t gonna find`em on the internet nor nowhere coz it was during the Cold war and nobody told nobody where they was.

There is one in California I know of also was still there in the 1980`s in a suburb of SF, built underground to withstand a nuclear burst close by. I saw it up close. YUPYUP YUP you won`t find that one on the net neither...
We also got us a nuclear sub pen here built into the side of the mountain 3 miles deep against a nuclear blast. Been there don that too.

[RedStateRocker]

Well, I stand corrected; however I think Robert Heinlein said it best “The only effective defense against a nuclear weapon is to not be there when it goes off.” *I* wouldn’t trust ‘em, not that it really matters :-)

[hinckley buzzard]

Funny you should say that. After WWII the government surveyed damage in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. And issued a report in 1950 “The Effects of Atomic Weapons.” They cite protective shelters dug into the side of hills near Nagasaki, which survived the initial blast and thermal effects of the blast. They were described as “very near ground zero.” They also studied survivors and found that a good layer of clothing protected against thermal effects from the blast. They issued recommendations for Americans in case of nuclear attack.

From the overall study, and given a certain minimum distance of course, it is clear that there are ways to respond that maximize survival, even in the face of the nuclear blast. “Duck and cover” was not a joke, and it was not a pointless exercise.