Where to go to survive...

WHERE TO TAKE COVER.
You can take cover in any kind of building, a storm or fruit cellar, a subway station, a tunnel, or even in a ditch or culvert alongside the road. A highway underpass can serve as shelter as will a storm sewer, a cave or outcropping of rock, a pile of heavy materials, a trench or other excavation. Getting under a parked car, bus, train, or a heavy piece of furniture will protect you to some extent. If no cover is available simply lie down on the ground and curl up. The important thing is to avoid being burned by the heat, thrown about by the blast, or struck by flying objects.

BEST POSITION AFTER TAKING COVER.
After taking cover lie on your side in a curled-up position and cover your head with your arms and hands. This will give you some additional protection.

MOVE TO A FALLOUT SHELTER LATER.
If you succeed in protecting yourself against the blast and heat waves by instantly taking cover, you can now move to a fallout shelter. There you will have better protection from radioactive fallout arriving later.

WHEN IS IT SAFE TO LEAVE A SHELTER?
Maintain complete isolation inside the shelter from four to six days following the last nuclear detonation. A very brief exposure for procurement of water on the third day is permissible, but do not exceed thirty minutes. On the seventh day one exposure of not more than thirty minutes is permissible. On the eighth day limit exposure to no more than one hour. From the ninth day through the twelfth day, restrict exposure to two to four hours per day.

From the thirteenth day on normal operation is possible, followed by the rest in a protected shelter. In all instances make exposures as brief as possible. Only mandatory life-maintaining needs should be considered as valid reasons for exposure. The times given are conservative. If forced to move after the first or second day do so, but keep the exposure time as short as possible.

Keep all food in covered containers
Keep cooking and eating utensils clean
Keep all garbage in a closed container

Dispose of the garbage outside the shelter when it is safe to do so, and if possible bury it. Do not let garbage or trash accumulate inside the shelter for fire and sanitation reasons.

MANY KINDS OF FALLOUT SHELTERS.
The farther away you are from the fallout particles outside, the less radiation you will receive. The building materials that are between you and the fallout particles absorb many of the gamma rays and keep them from reaching you. A fallout shelter, therefore, does not need to be a special type of building or an underground bunker. It can be any space, provided the walls and roof are thick or heavy enough to absorb many of the rays given off by the fallout particles outside. A shelter can be the basement or inner corridor of any large building, the basement of a private home, a subway or tunnel, or even a backyard trench with some kind of shielding material serving as a roof. In addition to protecting people from fallout radiation, most fallout shelters will also provide limited protection against the blast and heat effects of nuclear explosions that are not close by. From many studies the federal government has determined that enough food and water will be available after an attack to sustain surviving citizens. However temporary food shortages may occur in some locations until food can be shipped in from other areas.

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