[goodnesswins]

And I’ve always wondered what good a desk would be against a bomb (yeah, I lived thru those drills)

[CIB-173RDABN]

And I’ve always wondered what good a desk would be against a bomb (yeah, I lived thru those drills)
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It would depend on how far you were from the blast.

Too close and it would not matter at all.

Further away with just windows being blown out, being under a desk with your head protected may prevent serious wounds from glass.

Personally I think the drills were mainly to keep the student under some control if an attack were to take place.

Knowing kids, they would all run to the window to see what was happening.

[unixfox]

Hiding under the desks was nothing but a false sense of security. Just another form of indoctrination. Kinda like taking your shoes off and getting strip searched at the airport.

[flamberge]

(yeah, I lived thru those drills)

I grew up about two miles away from an Air Force base that hosted a wing of strategic bombers.

Not really concerned about getting under my school desk during the drills. It was kind of fun for a kid. For the real deal I was going to get up and watch the planes take off. They were pretty cool.

And wait for the flash.

[hanamizu]

And I’ve always wondered what good a desk would be against a bomb (yeah, I lived thru those drills)

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I grew up in a town that was an obvious target. Aircraft plant, Navy base, so hiding under the desk would have been pointless. But I was five or six and hadn’t thought all of that through. I remember being warned not to ‘look at the light’.