If she wasn't already looking at it, it would've been pretty much impossible for her to turn her head in time to get an eye-full of the blinding light.


0.000007 seconds (seven tenths of a millisecond ) is how fast she would've had to snap her head from not looking to looking in order to get blinded by the nuke. It's a pretty iconic hazard but the actual possibility of getting blinded is within an incredibly small window.

The explosion is also greater than 6 miles away so there's no fear over getting melted.
She and her dad should've absolutely eaten shit though from the shockwave that reached them and knocked everything else to the side and over,

Yet left them standing.

Bizarrely, everyone else except one woman isn't actually affected by the shockwave.

The lack of reaction to having panes of shattered glass being flung at them is probably because the glass breaking exterior shot was practical but the interior shot was CGI.


Goggins also might've been inserted in with CGI too given inside he's flanked by a bush in the interior shot whereas exterior it's absent.


They might've also spliced together two different takes or scenes. If Goggins or someone in his costume was added in post then I imagine the original scene would've had the nuke go in the background with some camera shake to indicate the shockwave knocking that woman over. The stunned silence rather than panic from having a ton of glass hailing on them would make more sense in that case. It's possible early on they might've been more subdued with this opening but then recycled it later for the more urgent one we saw.
If there's a moment when Goggins
and the girl would get blinded it's during this scene.


Assuming he and she are looking straight ahead two nukes denotate in front of them. The only debatable factor here is whether the impact zone was obscured from their angle of sight by the buildings or not. That gives enough plausibility they were protected from the flash we the viewer saw because the camera is at a different angle.
I'll take my jigsaw pieces now.