Friday, January 13, 2012

If 'duck and cover' was ineffective protection against radiation, why was it used in air raid drills?

The 1950's era school air raid drills taught kids to duck under their desks and cover their heads. Wouldn't it have been safer to go to the fallout shelter if we were going to be nuked? Most schools here in the US had fallout shelters in the basement.

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