I highly recommend everyone find and watch a copy of the movie "The Day After". Although it's a little dated it is still "essential" watching if you want to see a realistic, graphic depiction of what it would be like to experiance a nuclear strike.

"The time for war has not yet come, but it will come and that soon, and when it does come, my advice is to draw the sword and throw away the scabbard." Gen. T.J. Jackson, March 1861