How is it that if you hide in a ditch when a nuke goes off, you will take less energy from that nuke.
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Hardlemonade101
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If it's windy and you stand behind a wall, you feel less wind. If the nuke is detonated at ground level and you're in a ditch, the force of the blast passes over you because the wall of the ditch is between you and the blast. If the blast is detonated in the air above the ditch, you won't get any protection from being in the ditch.
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If you're anywhere close it doesn't matter what you do, but it might help you keep your mind off the fact that you're going to be mostly converted into carbon dioxide and water vapour shortly.
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Where did you get that info? Warheads and bombs of the nuclear type are usually detonated very high in altitude to spread the blast over a wider area. I suppose the burm might block some alpha and beta radiation and insulate you from the shockwave. But more likely you'd be swept away and fried w/ gamma radiation. still i'd jump into one if I knew the big one was coming
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radiation is directional, like light the gamma waves and x-rays of a nuclear detonation will be partially absorbed by the ground in the side of the ditch between you and the blast. but that won't help you much with the thermal plum and fall out (radioactive dust and debre thrown in the air by the blast that "falls" on you, carrying deadly radiation
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