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Stay away from windows, shards of glass flying at high speeds are a big factor in indoor deaths from blasts. Many embassies have breathable curtains with weights on the bottom, to catch any glass while letting air pass through

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Not just glass.

Some people in Hiroshima had to have surgery later in life to remove other people's teeth from their bodies.

> Some people in Hiroshima had to have surgery later in life to remove other people's teeth from their bodies.

This is one of the scariest and ugliest thing I've ever read about Hiroshima.

Same, and I thought that at 44, I have seen and read pretty much everything.

Where did you read this? It's something I haven't heard before

I have security foils in my windows, though more against thieves than against a nuclear blast. The glass should break, but either stay in the window, or fall out in one blob kept together by the foil.

This will likely lead to a worse situation, by creating one giant projectile travelling through the air

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6eCd3qYCC6E

With the bomb curtain I mentioned, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKiig392a3I

There are bomb films similar to what you described, but they need to be added with a blast resistant window frame

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKjVbytYFHA

I presented these videos during a class discussing the effects of nuclear weapons and explosions

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