Active-Shooter Drills Are Tragically Misguided

Obligatory 99pi episode link:

https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/atomic-tattoos/

I think calling it deeply ignorant might be a bit harsh. It's a pretty common misconception, and it does intuitively seem like duck and cover would not protect against the most powerful weapon in human history.

Oh, I'm not dismissive of it helping with avoiding debris falling on your head and perhaps the blinding flash. The issue is the world ending shortly after that due to world war 3.

Would you mind sharing some of your knowledge about it?

when you see the flash its too late to avoid the gamma ray xray and neutron blast that happens [lets call it Rad dosage for now]. The only thing that can be done about that is to know ahead of time that incoming ordinance is on its way and put the greatest series of high density material between you and a direct line of transit to the centre of the detonation. Next comes the thermal blast and the [latent] acoustic shock/pressure wave. this is where depending on yield of the munitions, you want to be in a very sturdy shelter, or perhaps out in the open to make the suffering very short lived. I think one of the most famous ground zero survivors was a file clerk that had gone to a basement to retrieve some reams of documents.

a long story about it all is in here:

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_a...]

this survivor was underground, and surrounded by a tightly packed library of documents btween themself and an >ATOMIC< blast. you may duck and cover and avoid shrapnel but RAD dosage espescially from neutrons is something else. neutrons interact very weakly if at all via charge as they are neutral [but do oscillate type] neutrons do have a small amount of mass, they dont seem to interact strongly in a gravitational sense but the extreme velocity of the neutron flux creates a substantial momentum and plays billiards with the nucleii of your body and surrounding materials, like a subatomic shotgun all over you.

Why would the fallout be another story? People were certain the world would literally end. Living another week or two isn't much of a public safety goal.