![]() ![]() is trying to do something useful, but it’s all very abstract and runs counter to what people expect in a nuclear attack,” Stephen Schwartz, nonresident senior fellow at the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, tells Popular Mechanics. NYC Emergency Management, for its part, describes the video as sharing, “important steps for New Yorkers to follow if a nuclear attack occurs.” This sets a bizarre tone akin to a television commercial for financial services, oddly detached from the horrific realities of thermonuclear war. “Don’t ask me how or why, but the big one has hit,” she says. The video (below) starts with a calm, confident presenter superimposed over a computer-generated New York City brownstone. It offers the bare minimum in marginally useful information for surviving what would undoubtedly be the single worst day in the history of mankind. The video, produced by the city’s Emergency Management department, is a well-intentioned, but abstract video with a strange, breezy tone. It’s just the latest in a long line of government-created public safety announcements on nuclear war.Ī new, oddly cheerful video directed at New Yorkers explains what to do in the event of a horrific thermonuclear attack-or at least, it tries to.The video features a smiling presenter who offers less-than-useful advice on survival in the event of nuclear war.New York City officials uploaded a video to YouTube on Monday describing how citizens can survive a nuclear attack. ![]()
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