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To: Lane3 who wrote (33885)	3/11/2004 3:30:31 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) of 793852

I happened upon an interview on Fox of a rep from the Rand Corp who led me to this booklet on individual emergency response. rand.org In the section on nuclear attacks I found the following: <<Evacuation—getting completely out of the path of the radioactive cloud—is a highly effective way to protect against fallout. But time matters because you will have less than 10 minutes when in the immediate blast zone. Because the distance you will need to trav-el will be relatively short, at most a mile or so, you will be able to do this by foot. The key to evacuating quickly is to find the right way out. This requires effort but is not as difficult as it may seem at first. The cloud will cover a portion of the blast zone, so anyone there should move directly away from the blast center (away from the location of the initial bright flash and from the greatest damage) until clear. The approximate location of the rest of the radioac-tive cloud can be determined by observing the direc-tion in which the wind is blowing the cloud. You should move perpendicular to the wind direction...>> It never occurred to me that one could get away from nuclear fallout on foot.

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