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Comment by NiceWayToDoIT | Hacker News Reader

So, there you go it seems having full fledged nuclear war is quite safe. :) (sorry for dark humor)

If you stay completely inside for the first 2 weeks you'll probably be ok, radiation wise. If you're unsheltered in the first hours in fallout you will get a fatal dose in a matter of minutes and die a painful death over the next few days. So if you see the blast and survive the pressure wave then get the hell inside and stay there for 2 weeks no matter where you are. Try not to ventilate too much.

https://www.oism.org/nwss/

In the words of South Park: "Duck And Cover!"

Put your head between your legs and kiss your ass goodbye.

Make sure you have drinking water for several weeks. A large fraction of the deaths after Hiroshima was because thirsty people would drink the "black rain". (The fallout caused water in the atmosphere to condense, causing it to start to rain, and the rain was black with fallout.)

Anyone forced to go outside to find drinking water over the first few weeks have pretty poor odds, if the water contains fallout.

Improvised filters can remove most of the fallout at it is attached to particles. Not that I want to do this to survive.

I've checked the map. For my location, 6 km from the center of Berlin, I am in the region labeled "fireball".

it really depends on the choice of warhead and in a worst-case scenario I do get to life for a few more days. But I had previously seen data for a Hiroshima-sized bomb and considered my chance of survival to be quite good. Turns out that yield class isn't really part of the discussion anymore.

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