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Hey kim Dumb Ill, you better star learning to Duck and Cover (as if that will really work)!

Good Morning. Permit me to offer a gentle correction to the presumption that 'duck and cover' is not a valid tactic.

I was in elementary school when the Cuban Missile Crisis was going on, and we were taught the D.A.C until we had it down pat. The teacher had a photo flash unit (removable flash bulbs in those days) and would flash it unexpectedly (to simulate the flash of a nuclear explosion some miles away) and we were expected to dive out of our seats and curl up either under our desks or against the wall with our hands covering our necks, our heads tucked in tight.

Nobody in their right mind ever suggested that the D.A.C would protect us from a direct hit of a nuke, but we WERE smart enough to understand that if we were some distance away from an explosion, that the blast wave would shatter the glass windows of our classrooms, and the shards and other debris would become deadly projectiles.

Which is why we would want to be under our desks, curled up into a defensive position.

Liberal chowderheads (not you Sir) today like to chuckle it up about the "foolishness" of telling kids in those days to D.A.C. as if somebody in official Washington had the idea that you could survive a direct hit at ground zero by such tactics, but that was never the goal: the goal was to instruct students (and all citizens) that by knowing the D.A.C. maneuver, they might avoid serious injury to themselves by the time a nuclear shock wave reached them after the initial detonation.

Sorry for the rant but I feel it necessary to promote this factual information whenever there is a hint of misunderstanding and/or disinformation on this subject.

Do have a good day.