How To Survive a Nuclear Terrorist Attack
- February 27, 2010
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Writer
Rosemarie_Lennon
Music
James Panepinto
Voice Over Artist
Ishaq Clayton
You can increase your chances of staying alive if you know how to decrease your exposure to radiation.
You Will Need
- Potassium iodide
- Shelter
- Decontamination
Step 1: Get potassium iodide
Have potassium iodide on hand; you may need it to protect your thyroid from the radioactive iodine fallout of a nuclear event. It is available without a prescription; ask your pharmacist for an FDA-approved brand and dosage guidelines.
In the event of an attack, emergency officials may advise people over 40 not to take potassium iodide, since they have the lowest chance of developing thyroid cancer or thyroid injury after exposure to radioactive iodine.
Step 2: Go below
If an attack is imminent, get indoors and go as far below ground as you can. If that’s not possible, seek whatever shelter you can.
Step 3: Seal yourself in
Once indoors, close all windows and doors and turn off air conditioners, heaters, and other ventilation systems.
Step 4: Seal up your car
If you can’t get to a building, stay inside your car. Close the windows and vents, turn off the heat and A/C, and hold a cloth over your mouth and nose to avoid breathing in radioactive dust and smoke.
Step 5: Protect yourself outdoors
If you’re caught outdoors or very near the blast when it happens, don’t look at it or you risk temporary or even permanent blindness. Keep your mouth open so your eardrums don’t burst. Don’t touch objects thrown by an explosion; they might be radioactive.
Step 6: Stay put
If you are more than 10 miles from the epicenter of the blast, remain in the shelter for 48 to 72 hours after the blast.
Step 7: Get out of Dodge!
If you are closer than 10 miles to the epicenter after the explosion, get moving! You have 10 to 20 minutes to get at least a mile away from the mushroom cloud, or you risk lethal radiation poisoning.
Be sure to move downwind or perpendicular to the wind.
Step 8: Cover up
Keep your mouth, nose, and as much of your skin covered as you move away from the blast area.Once you’re at a safe distance, take off your clothes; this alone may get rid of up to 80 percent of radioactive dust. Then take a shower, which will further reduce your exposure.
Step 9: Get decontaminated
Rid your body of radioactive material as soon as possible by reporting to the nearest decontamination center set up in your area.
In the film “Godzilla 1985,” a Soviet captain tries to launch a nuclear missile at Tokyo after learning that Godzilla is back.
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Comments (2)
can you do one How to survive to Nuclear Attack from USA ? or `from France or UK or Israel .. basically all the countries with Nuclear arsenal and arms of mass destruction .. terrorists have just small bombs or Ak47 they don't scare me !
about 1 year ago by alexvillani
My friend EP had this reply:
Good video for these times we live in, they never told us about this during the
bay of pigs scare back in the 60’s. Crouch under your desk and cover your eyes.
then kiss your butt goodbye lol. When I asked my 5th grade teacher if it would help,
she said run for a ditch if you want to live.
People that could afford it built bomb shelters in their backyard and stocked em up,
literally. It was a bit scary considering that Sacramento was very close to ground zero
in a retaliatory attack from the Russians in that they could take out 3 sac bases with
one. Mather being one of them.
I doubt that we will be worrying about fusion bombs here but suitcase bombs are
bit of a threat and what this movie targets. It’d be tough for a terrorist jerk to
smuggle in a fusion bomb.
I bought some potassium iodide a while back after 9-11, and a gas mask with radiation
attachments.
The sodium iodide fills your thyroid gland and prevents radiation from getting in
there. It seems to accumulate radiation then distributes it through the body.
Thanks dude, I learned something here.
One piece of advice I could add here
Fear God, Not Man.
TTYL Bud J
about 1 year ago by ablang
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