'Duck and Cover,' Nuclear Attack Civil Defence Film 1952; Lewis Black Comedy Gold [View all]

Original TV advert film (1 min). Air Raid drill. 1952 U.S. Defense film, "Duck and Cover," 'Burt the Turtle' teaches schoolchildren how to protect against a nuclear attack. (More below).
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"Duck and Cover" is a method of personal protection against the effects of a nuclear explosion. Ducking and covering is useful in offering a degree of protection to persons located outside the radius of the nuclear fireball but still within sufficient range of the nuclear explosion that standing upright and uncovered is likely to cause serious injury or death..Methods similar, but not identical, to Duck and Cover are also taught as the response to other sudden destructive events such as an earthquake or tornado...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck_and_cover


Comedy by Lewis Black: Nuclear Holocaust.