I'm not completly versed on the nature of nuclear fall-out so I was wondering had Jim and Hilda had followed the government instructions properly could they have lived or were they doomed either way. To me it seems unlikly that doors and some cushions would protect you very well but maybe I just don't understand how it works.
shareThe doors are chiefly to protect people from the blast but even though radioactive fall-out is not toxic for weeks on end, Jim and Hilda accelerated things a bit by "forgetting" they were to remain in the inner core or refuge. They must have inhaled a heck of a lot of that stuff and quickly developed all the symptoms of radiation poisoning (hair loss, vomitting, headaches, lesions etc).
I still suspect that the dust would of course infiltrate the shelter so short of a specialist suit I doubt they would have survived.
Lest we forget, the water supply was cut off also so they would eventually have died of thirst and the water would also have been contaminated.
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I highly doubt they would have survived, even to the extent that they did in this film. In fact, I looked at their conversation after the attack as a shared hallucination in their final breathing moments before dying.
shareI dont think so.Maybe if they had actually had a well built underground fallout shelter stocked with plenty of water and canned foods, but even then the chances would have been at best 50/50.