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. — Køpper J. Kopp (@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

Go back to elementary school and get under the desk? — it's just me (@tkcrockett) June 16, 2018

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. I hate liberal hypocrisy. (@JustBeaTee) June 16, 2018

Livestream it on FB of course. — MikeBixby (@mikebixby305) June 16, 2018

I'd Livestream it while constantly screaming out "WorldStar HipHop." — Andy (@ar910793) June 16, 2018

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 — J Corley (@jlhcorley) June 16, 2018

Just thinking about how to prepare for incineration… football and beer? — Frank Saltzman (@ImaPaleoVegan) 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

Riot. Loot. Revenge killings. Usual end of the world stuff. — Jim Gonyay (@DrJamesJTeeth) June 16, 2018

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

Pray for death because the ensuing nuclear winter would be a hellscape of starvation, murder and depravity? https://t.co/8eB4HKsmHL — Jason (@jasonelevation) June 16, 2018

Prepare for the zombie apocalypse of course. Duh! — David (@nomadicdrift) June 16, 2018

I’d head for the wine cellar. — Very Able and Stable Abel (@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. — Suzy (@kakistocrazy) June 16, 2018

Put on sunscreen? — MAGA ruined my hair (@PlsStepForward) 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

Tweet about it..duh — Dex Dexter – Funkateer (@DexDext94168840) June 16, 2018

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 — Jeremiah Stephan Dunleavy IV (@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

I'm sure a left-wing blog is genuinely concerned about our safety in the extremely unlikely event of a nuclear attack and isn't at all using this in a coordinated effort to stoke fears going into mid-term elections — Archer (@BoraxCross) June 16, 2018

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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