August
12, 1950
What
to do when Atomic Bomb Explodes
The U.S. Atomic Energy Commission
issued the first book on safety in the event of a nuclear war, entitled The
Effects of Atomic Weapons. Editor Joseph O. Hirschfelder wrote in the
introduction that "Just as our ancestors learned to face the perils of
cholera and smallpox epidemics, so must modern man learn to live with the
man-made danger of atomic bomb attack."Advice included "duck
and cover", advising that within one second after the flash of a bomb,
to "fall flat and double up.
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