that's what I've been asking for awhile. May be akin to the reason we don't have a Civil Defense agency anymore.
During the Cold War, congressional hearings concluded that it was just too difficult to evaccuate an entire city. One high ranking CD official whose name I've forgotten wrote a book titled: "With Enough Shovels" (I kid you not) It suggested that radiation wouldn't penetrate three feet of soil, and if memory serves, even suggested digging a "hidey hole" using a door commandeered from ones house to cover the hole dug, and covered with the requsite amount of soil.Now I'm jusat waiting for the one titled, "With Enough Buckets."
One more time: Government is not our friend. And: "What's everybody's business, is nobody's business.
"One high ranking CD official whose name I've forgotten wrote a book titled: "With Enough Shovels" (I kid you not) It suggested that radiation wouldn't penetrate three feet of soil, and if memory serves, even suggested digging a "hidey hole" using a door commandeered from ones house to cover the hole dug, and covered with the requsite amount of soil.Now I'm jusat waiting for the one titled, "With Enough Buckets.""
Actually, the "With Enough Shovels" book was leftist crap, based on an ambush-journalism of T.K. Jones (the civil defense official you mentioned). It was intended to show how those Wascally Wepubwicans were all a bunch of trigger-happy maniacs set on starting a nuclear war with the peace-loving USSR.
Jones was (and remains) absolutely correct. Yes, you can survive a nuclear blast (assuming you do not live next to a prime ground zero such as an ICBM silo) using a door, a shovel, and some dirt. Once the blast and thermal pulse have dissipated, your next job is to get the heck out of there if you live downwind of the blast. Do those two things, and you are on the road to surviving a nuclear attack.