If a thermonuclear bomb exploded close to your home

[dave502d]

Obviously, if a thermonuclear bomb exploded close to your home, you'd have little hope of surviving the blast. But what if one exploded 5 miles away, or 20 miles away? And what about radioactive fallout?

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/bomb/sfeature/mapablast.html

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. Used to do that calculus

trust me some of these folks who do not make it, will be the lucky bastards

[undergroundpanther]

2. I'd pop a shitload

of iodine pills and give them out to every living creature in my vicinity and kiss my ass goodbye?

[dflprincess]

3. I'd crawl under my desk

and "duck and cover", just like I was taught in school.

Then I'd kiss my ass goodbye.

[DearAbby]

5. I wont have to worry about defrosting the freezer

:evilgrin: :nuke: :hide:

[Cleita]

8. Me too.

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[TwilightZone]

4. Depends on the payload of the bomb.

I did a research paper in high school (a couple of decades ago!) on this very topic! Freaked out my whole class.

[lenidog]

6. There used to be a web site where you could pick the yield

and then type in your zip and it would show you the radius of the different effects from a nuclear weapon. Never quite worried about it though. Especially after I found out that my county was in the top twenty of the Russian nuclear hit list. I wouldn't be around to worry about it after it happened.

[natrat]

7. once you get far enouigh out it depends on wind direction

and even then it's just a matter of time unless you can evacuate-my guess