
Duck and Cover was a suggested method of personal protection against the effects of a nuclear weapon which the United States government taught to generations of United States school children from the early 1950s into the 1980s. This was supposed to protect them in the event of an unexpected nuclear attack which, they were told, could come at any time without warning. Immediately after they saw a flash they had to stop what they were doing and get on the ground under some cover—such as a table, or at least next to a wall—and assume the fetal position, lying face-down and covering their heads with their hands.[1] Similar instructions were given in 1964 in the United Kingdom by Civil Defence Information Bulletin No. 5.[2] and, in the 1980s, by the Protect and Survive series.[3] Proponents argued that thousands could be saved through this precaution, without which people would instead run to windows to find the source of the big flash. During this time a shock wave would cause a glass implosion, shredding onlookers.[4] According to the 1946 book "Hiroshima", in the days between the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombs in Japan, one Hiroshima policeman went to Nagasaki to teach police about ducking after the atomic flash. As a result of this timely warning, not a single Nagasaki policeman died in the initial blast. This allowed more surviving Nagasaki police to organize relief efforts than in Hiroshima. Unfortunately, the general population was not warned of the heat/blast <b>...</b>
Duck And Cover (film)
Documentary
war
USA
Nagasaki
Hiroshima
Nuclear
Fallout
Duck
And
Cover
Holocaust
Atom
bomb
Assault
History
Anima
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