It's also to give people something to do. Something to practice and focus on getting right. Gives hope and keeps people from getting caught in a panic loop.

In sweden we had nuke safe kindergartens, concrete slides to put in the 40 cm deep windows and all.

We remember russia and the fucking soviet union.

That edit is expected of anyone Finnish.

Sincerely, a drunk Bavarian

In WW1 armies learned helmets were a good idea when artillery kicked up big chunks of debris killing unlucky soldiers when it rained down on them. Ballistic protection was an afterthought that came along later.

So yeah better than nothing I guess, same with tornado drills our schools have sometimes

It also helps against what tends to be modeled and seen as the largest cause of injury during a nuclear scale explosion like that seen in Beirut, namely shards of glass, though it definitely helps survive falling beams in timber framed buildings.

Remember, thanks to the wonders of the inverse square law you are statistically far more likely to be in the area that gets light to moderate blast damage from the pressure wave rather than core of the blast.