Politico Magazine reports that a group based at Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey, is directing a new project called Reinventing Civil Defense. Their goal is to prepare Americans to respond to a nuclear event.
Would you know what to do during a nuclear attack?
Most Americans don't https://t.co/nBkjwkjOAY
— POLITICO (@politico) June 16, 2018
So what would Americans in 2018 do during a nuclear attack?
Strip naked and run directly toward the mushroom cloud.
— к๏קקєг (@kopper) June 16, 2018
We drilled for this in elementary school. It's not hard to figure out. https://t.co/9ChbYx7O2V
— Scott Greenfield (@ScottGreenfield) June 16, 2018
https://twitter.com/tkcrockett/status/1008116407723286529
Just duck under a sturdy school desk, right? https://t.co/K1pIAcys0o
— Frank Luntz (@FrankLuntz) June 16, 2018
Duck…and COVER!
— Brian M Wilcox (@bwilcoxwrites) June 17, 2018
It’s fill your bathtub with water, right? It’s always fill your bathtub with water. https://t.co/Tmbv7eTKJc
— Carl Clark (@Clarkitect) June 17, 2018
When the alert happens, I will turn to Twitter and get expert advice. Duh. https://t.co/Be0HYaBevA
— Greg Pollowitz (@GPollowitz) June 16, 2018
I’m going to walk around in my white briefs, cowboy boots, cigg in mouth, martini in hand and sing “It’s raining men.”
— Matthew DeLeon (@Matthewdeleon69) June 17, 2018
I'd record it.
— B.T. Samuel. (@JustBeaTee) June 16, 2018
https://twitter.com/mikebixby305/status/1008134160660168709
I'd Livestream it while constantly screaming out "WorldStar HipHop."
— Andy (@ar910793) June 16, 2018
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This is what it would look like pic.twitter.com/EeItm1wL0u
— Alexander Crouton-Skitch (@AlexanderSkitch) June 17, 2018
Quickly get into position to leave THE BEST shadow figure —#duh?
— Dawna Olson (@dawnaolson) June 16, 2018
Run into the light.
— Teresa (@Mothert08Teresa) June 16, 2018
Probably die.
— Zach D Roberts (@zdroberts) June 16, 2018
Drive to Arkansas, nobody is going to target them
— Tommy McPines (@TMcpines) June 16, 2018
The University of Oklahoma has extensive fallout shelters. https://t.co/RPRaVPhSwJ
— Jen Corley (@jlhcorley) June 16, 2018
Just thinking about how to prepare for incineration… football and beer?
— Pharmaceutical Grade Tefillin (@PharmaTefillin) June 16, 2018
Mass. I would celebrate Mass. https://t.co/sXYeRozquk
— Father Brian O'Brien (@frobrien) June 16, 2018
immediately tweet out "but her emails" so everyone knows im woke and cool before we're all dead https://t.co/GLpQ72gUT6
— Joe Gabriel Simonson (@SaysSimonson) June 17, 2018
Survive and preside over the ashes
— jb smith (@jbs2a) June 16, 2018
https://twitter.com/DrJamesJTeeth/status/1008119544458727424
Stand near something you’d like to get the superpowers of. https://t.co/WrUZ3xGLsx
— Frank J. Fleming (@IMAO_) June 16, 2018
Yes, I would put on cut off jeans and turn into the Incredible Hulk. https://t.co/QZdykXbgOB
— The Infamous Sergio (@NostromoSerg) June 16, 2018
https://twitter.com/jasonelevation/status/1008113675117395968
Prepare for the zombie apocalypse of course. Duh!
— therapewpewtic (@nomadicdrift) June 16, 2018
I’d head for the wine cellar.
— Plumb Bob (@bob_melusky) June 16, 2018
Climb into a fridge? https://t.co/gmtktFMYcM
— Nieds Dead Horse (@NDH_j_m_f) June 17, 2018
Go to the beach and watch it come in. Not much else we could do.
— Serenity Now (@AQuietNo) June 16, 2018
Put on sunscreen?
— The Ninety-Nine Percent (@PlsStepForward) June 16, 2018
— Coeus (@TheRealCoeus) June 16, 2018
get a band-aid for that blister developing on my button-finger https://t.co/t2gm7NIRku
— Michael Malice (@michaelmalice) June 16, 2018
Delete my browser history.
— Ryan Maples (@GUSMAPLES) June 17, 2018
https://twitter.com/DexDext94168840/status/1008120198774345730
I'd drop some nuclear hot tweets https://t.co/yry45p0nPZ
— Ben McDonald (@Bmac0507) June 16, 2018
I’d still be farming retweets even after I saw the bright flash. https://t.co/abRegUzyl4
— Jerry Dunleavy (@JerryDunleavy) June 16, 2018
Whatever will own the libs the most at that particular time, tbqh. https://t.co/8PdaGaLBTE
— James Hasson (@JamesHasson20) June 16, 2018
Find out if the Governor forgot his Twitter password. https://t.co/Pzf3tuwH7m
— Jazz Shaw (@JazzShaw) June 17, 2018
Americans are unprepared for everything…a loss of the consumer food supply, the power grids, running water, gas, it will be anarchy…#thepurge https://t.co/ZODLjy53sE
— Mitchell Wrenn (@MitchellWrenn) June 16, 2018
Are millennials killing the nuclear preparedness industry? https://t.co/Iuugooa4cu
— Reed Logan (@99Reedballoons) June 16, 2018
https://twitter.com/BoraxCross/status/1008113570460995586
Exactly what I'm doing now. I'm not a cockroach and I wouldn't survive, regardless. The real question is why are you trying to revive the Red Scare that our parents grew up in? Now… the media? Y'all might survive. I think you might be cockroaches.
— indychick ? (@jott1999) June 16, 2018
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