I just tried it myself. And nope, doesn’t work. I am now a ghoul. Hope you’re happy. I am.

No, you can safely be closer to nuclear blast than the thumb idea suggests

Also the things that will kill you in a nuclear blast are too fast to check with a rule of thumb

Also if it’s about the fallout, optimal use of nukes doesn’t make much fallout (air bursts don’t send lots of the ground into the air), though try to be upwind of a terrorist nuke

Betteridge’s law of headlines is an adage that states: “Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no.”