While your white painted post WWII development boom suburban frame house might not be ON FIRE before the overpressure destroyed it, that house most likely would be shortly after being reduced to kindling... Too many other sources of ignition besides thermal pulse.
I remember in the '60s in the context of stories about an alien invasion of Earth the thing people loved and embraced within that concept was that nations would put aside disagreements and come together as a single planet and a single species to fight off the invasion...
Also I'm interested in the video game you are working on
Around the same time there was this video that claimed a tidy yard and painted house helped against nuclear attack https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hh01SdN64Y
And sweeping the forest will take care of the fire problem.
While your white painted post WWII development boom suburban frame house might not be ON FIRE before the overpressure destroyed it, that house most likely would be shortly after being reduced to kindling... Too many other sources of ignition besides thermal pulse.
You mean something produced by the hardware store association would lie to me?
"Alas Babylon" might have been set in 1950s Florida, yet somehow, a black extended family got to be among the protagonists?!
(Oh. Author Harry Hart "Pat" Frank grew up in Il and NJ before moving to FL after school. A damn Yankee!)
https://www.amazon.com/Alas-Babylon-Harper-Perennial-Olive-ebook/dp/B00CD360ZQ
Though I can't remember the details, segregation in Civil Defense planning was touched upon by Garrett Graff in his book "Raven Rock."
The silence is deafening.
I remember in the '60s in the context of stories about an alien invasion of Earth the thing people loved and embraced within that concept was that nations would put aside disagreements and come together as a single planet and a single species to fight off the invasion...