Name: How to survive a nuclear attack
Uploaded: 2008-09-09T01:00:00Z
Duration: 24 min 58 s
Description: The face of nuclear terror has changed since the Cold War, but disaster-medicine expert Irwin Redlener reminds us the threat is still real. He looks at some of history's farcical countermeasures and offers practical advice on how to survive an attack.

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Here I say, "So you're feeling the wind — and there's tremendous wind now that you're going to be feeling — and you want to go perpendicular to the wind or downwind," but in fact I meant to say you should go *only* perpendicular to the wind — in other words, crosswind.

Similarly, here I say, "You want to move downwind or crosswind for 1.2 miles," but I meant to say only that you want to move crosswind for 1.2 miles.

The face of nuclear terror has changed since the Cold War, but disaster-medicine expert Irwin Redlener reminds us the threat is still real. He looks at some of history's farcical countermeasures and offers practical advice on how to survive an attack.

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