Educating the Public?

This is just a follow-up post related to the nukemap class activity (http://www.nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/ if you want to revisit), to help us grasp the effects of radiation during a nuclear attack. Two lessons can be drawn from this: 1./ as you collectively concluded, as a matter of distance AU probably benefits from not being right by the most likely targets in DC (although nukemap biggest blasts make that a bit of a moot point), 2./ as we all collectively suspected, there are some definite advantages to the location of our classroom. 

 

 This infographic helps us wrap our minds around the procedures of crisis response in case of a nuclear attack. I find it amusing and worrisome at the same time that the author of the article labeled this "choose your own adventure."

 

The questions to consider: how widely available is this information and even IF there is an optimal response, how many people are likely to follow those steps. Case in point, in Chernobyl, everyone had their windows wide open during and after the explosion because it was "unseasonably hot that late April day" and there was little or conflicting communication to correct this.

The source article for the infographics, with more detail: http://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-survive-a-nuclear-blast-2014-1

And speaking of education:

http://youtu.be/Fn7FttaTRms

Is it good or bad that none of us has seen as similar video lately?