It's much about getting to a bomb shelter in time. Assuming the government is awake and actively monitoring for nukes there's only a few minutes from when the bomb is detected to when it hit's the target, in that time the government will have to sound the air raid alarm, warn everyone via radio and quickly get as many as possible to take cover.
Today it's also probably more likely for the bomb to detonate far up in the sky, causing a long distance EMP, or hit the ocean, causing a tsunami in order to disrupt important coastal cities. Rural areas will likely be fine tho.
This was always the point of "duck and cover" ... it doesn't guarantee that you'll survive, but those that follow those simple instructions on the outskirts of targets could survive the initial attack unharmed (which boosts the overall probability of survival depending on the severity of the attack). It helps keep medical services less congested (though after a nuclear attack, they're going to be stretched thin regardless to say the least).
The UK had "Protect and Survive". What's cool is that the films they were supposed to run in the event nuclear war was likely to happen are on YouTube. They were produced in the late 1970s IIRC ... they have the eeriest jingle ever created in my worthless opinion :-) .
Anything I see from Fox or Newsmax I think to myself "this is what the enemy is saying to the conservatives, what are they trying to accomplish?"
The answer is fear, almost always.
It's much about getting to a bomb shelter in time. Assuming the government is awake and actively monitoring for nukes there's only a few minutes from when the bomb is detected to when it hit's the target, in that time the government will have to sound the air raid alarm, warn everyone via radio and quickly get as many as possible to take cover.
Today it's also probably more likely for the bomb to detonate far up in the sky, causing a long distance EMP, or hit the ocean, causing a tsunami in order to disrupt important coastal cities. Rural areas will likely be fine tho.
This was always the point of "duck and cover" ... it doesn't guarantee that you'll survive, but those that follow those simple instructions on the outskirts of targets could survive the initial attack unharmed (which boosts the overall probability of survival depending on the severity of the attack). It helps keep medical services less congested (though after a nuclear attack, they're going to be stretched thin regardless to say the least).
The UK had "Protect and Survive". What's cool is that the films they were supposed to run in the event nuclear war was likely to happen are on YouTube. They were produced in the late 1970s IIRC ... they have the eeriest jingle ever created in my worthless opinion :-) .