- "Meanwhile, government disaster experts say bunkers aren't necessary. A Federal Emergency Management Agency 100-page guide on responding to a nuclear detonation focuses on having the public get inside and stay inside, ideally in a basement and away from outside walls for at least a day. Those existing spaces can provide protection from radioactive fallout, says FEMA."

What an irresponsible and reckless misrepresentation on NPR's part. The fact FEMA recommends this doesn't mean that it's safe—most people who follow that advice will still die—it just means it's the minimal advice they can plausibly offer to limit aggregate deaths, to people who don't have the a budget for or interest in building fallout shelters.

Can you hide from wildfire smoke by merely closing your windows? Nuclear fallout is a finer particulate than that smoke.