Rand did a study on that.
http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_r...RAND_TR391.pdf
They postulated that most of the casualties would be the result of the chaos caused by people running and overloading every bit of infrastructure imaginable. The losses from the blast itself and radioactive fallout would less. Hiding in a basement would reduce them even more. The advice seems sensible to me.
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