Do This During A Nuclear Bomb Attack

10. Stay At Home

Fallout Shelter sign
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Local authorities are best at helping you during the nuclear attack, so unless you intend to go to another property, or stay with parents, you will receive no help from the emergency services in a new area.

In your home, there needs to be a designated fallout room and ‘inner refuge.’ As mentioned before, be sure to line your walls with as much material as possible to reduce the chances of radiation poisoning. Not only that but in your fallout room, it is required that you find a section of the room for where you and your loved ones will stay. Divide the room with more material, and make sure the inner refuge isn’t too large to help minimise your risk of becoming sick.

Basements and cellars are advised, as they are covered by the entire house at the top, and earth around its outer edges. For those without a subterranean feature, make sure you choose an area that is further away from the outside.

If you are living in a block of flats, avoid the top three floors at all costs, and make arrangements with your landlord to stay somewhere else in the building. Could you imagine that conversation?

In preparation, be sure to cover windows and fireplaces, as it is easier for the fallout to seep in through these crevices.

When it comes to those living in bungalows and caravans, there is no protection from the harms of nuclear bombs. It is advised that you make other arrangements to stay elsewhere.

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