Duck and Cover!

Duck and Cover! is a book found in Fallout 3 and Fallout: New Vegas. It is a book containing information about the manufacture and disarming of Explosives. Reading this book will permanently increase your Explosives skill.

Fallout 3
An image of the book is copied onto a slide for the Vault Dweller's Survival Guide. The slide's identifying number is VDSG Plate #153-34.

Reading one of its copies will permanently increase your Explosives skill by 1 (or 2 with Comprehension). There are 25 in total.

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Fallout: New Vegas
Reading this book improves your Explosives skill by 3 (4 with Comprehension).

Warning
There has been some occurrences where a skill book(s) have 'Auto-Deleted' itself from the game and never to be seen Again. For example; You pick up Grognak the Barbarian from Jacobstown, and later on throughout game play, it disappears from your inventory. To minimise risk of this occurrence happening, learn the book immediately after you picked it up. (Be sure that you have got the Comprehension perk, if wanted, before so.) This however is a new bug discovered in the game on the Xbox 360. Needs verification for PC.

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Behind the scenes

 * The book is based on a late 1950's through 1960's short Cold War educational film called "Duck and Cover", a film about a turtle named Bert, who would duck and cover at the first sign of any danger. The film was presented to students in classrooms across the United States to teach kids what to do in the event of a nuclear attack on the country. Oddly, you can find some of the real-life film's posters scattered in the various abandoned schools.

Fallout: New Vegas Locations
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