Just watching old footage of actual atomic tests in the 40's and 50's with the soldiers just standing around, not in a bunker, with the cloud towering above them seemingly not too far away, you could figure out that was bullshit. Actually surprised Kyle didn't show any of those after he shows his work.
While the show is amazing, that's not good advice. For example that first blast was very survivable from where they were. Also there's a second shockwave that goes back the other way so don't get up too quickly. Go play around on nukemap, it's fun and educational!
I saw some rules like 30 years ago on survivor chances based on their behavior, I have trouble finding them but roughly it was:
Half of those who go unconscious but then wake up within an hour will survive
75% of those who vomit but stop within an hour will live, but 25% of those who cannot stop vomiting will live.
It went on into burn patients as well - it was data from the nuclear blasts in WW2. I remember it because years later when I did some medicine I realized the first one was brain injury and the second was intestinal radiation injury. If your intestines were sterilized you won’t be here much longer.
I think intestineal issues are the first symptom of your DNA being so fucked you can't produce new cells. The cells in your guts needs constant replenishment and things go bad quick down there without new cells.
Meh, Richard Feynman wrote in his biography that he saw the first mushroom cloud through a car windshield during the Manhattan project, he lived for another 40-50 years.
I guess it’s for the pressure difference? If you have your mouth open, your lungs expand and contract together with the pressure difference because of the explosion.
In tests they did in the 50s they told people yo cover their eyed with their hands and close their eyed and people could see the bones in the heir hands.
I always thought that was funny. Don't look at the flash. Also, the Flash is the first thing that's going to alert you to nuclear explosion. LMAO. I can already hear the VA after the first nuke gets used in war. "We have deemed your eye injury non compensable because you were trained not to look at the flash."
You might see a meteoric fireball or three streaking towards the center of the city or airbase as the hypersonic MIRVs descend.
In general its best not to look at any meteor-looking things, as even natural meteors can explode in the atmosphere with a bright harmful flash (and produce a shockwav