Duck and cover
Автор:
Jesse Russell,Ronald Cohn, 101 стр., издатель:
"Книга по Требованию", ISBN:
978-5-5147-9690-8
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Duck and Cover is a suggested method of personal protection against the effects of a nuclear explosion, which the United States government taught to generations of United States school children from the early 1950s until the end of the Cold War in the late 1980s. It was intended to protect them in the event of both an unexpected nuclear attack, which, they were told, might come at any time without warning(although with the Ballistic Missile Early Warning System, and the Pinetree Line of the era, a surprise attack was unlikely) and in the event sufficient warning is given. Under the conditions of a surprise attack, immediately after they saw a flash they had to stop what they were doing and get on the ground under some cover—such as a table, or at least next to a wall—and assume a prone like position, lying face-down and covering their exposed skin and back of their heads with their clothes, or if no excess clothes such as a coat was...
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