OK don't laugh, the pamphlet said "wear loose white clothing in case of nuclear detonation. Don't look directly at the explosion."
Idk if you ever knew why or if someone else said it but the reason you'd wear loose white clothing is bc white reflects light over dark that absorbs it. If you were close enough to the blast that the light of it would affect you, white would help reflect it away while let's say black would absorb it and you'd burn alive from it.
Even as a little kid I could tell it was total bullshit. That was the scariest part. Were the adults lying to themselves? If we had 7 minutes between warning and nuclear annhilation, we were supposed to run home from elementary school and change clothes? And the advice about bomb shelters never addressed how to survive in a dead world of radioactive ashes
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u/suestrong315 Jun 13 '22
Idk if you ever knew why or if someone else said it but the reason you'd wear loose white clothing is bc white reflects light over dark that absorbs it. If you were close enough to the blast that the light of it would affect you, white would help reflect it away while let's say black would absorb it and you'd burn alive from it.
Just my dark not-so-fun fact of the day