Duck and Cover! (Fallout 3)

For an overview of this item's appearances in the Fallout series of games, see Duck and Cover!.

Fallout 3 skill book
Duck and Cover!
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Value	50
Value	50
Weight	2
Weight	2
Effects	+1 Explosives (+2 with Comprehension)
Form ID	0006A80C
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Duck and Cover! is a skill book in Fallout 3.

Characteristics

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

Locations

Closest map marker	Location description
Alexandria Arms	On the first floor, southern-most part of the building. On a bookshelf next to a fire hose box.
Charnel House	Second floor of the ruined house, across the plank bridge.
Citadel	In Citadel Laboratory, in the restrooms in a wooden crate inside one of the stalls.
Deathclaw Sanctuary	Outside the entrance in a locked footlocker.
Dukov's Place	To the south close to the river, on a small table in a raider "fort" on the coast.
Evergreen Mills	Foundry: Lying next to a dead body on the ledge above the broken terminal of the ground. To reach it, you must jump off the stairs to the ledge.
F. Scott Key Trail & Campground	On a picnic table.
Falls Church/Mason Dst Metro	In a ticket booth hidden behind a barricade near the glowing ones. This book only spawns when you reach level 9.
Fort Constantine	On a desk in the Launch Control Bunker. Can only be accessed Ted Strayer's special key.
Germantown Police HQ	From the entrance to the fence maze outside of Germantown Police HQ, head south for ten yards or so. You'll find a destroyed road. Follow that south to an intersection by two ruined houses. Then follow the road west for a little while and you will see a house. Look on the bookshelf.
Hamilton's Hideaway	In the raider's lair on the counter by some cherry bombs and a bottle of Nuka-Cola Quantum
Jocko's Pop & Gas stop	In the Signal Sierra Victor drainage chamber to the east of the activating antenna mast.
Monorail train wreckage	Next to the bathtub, on the ground.
Museum of Technology	To the north, inside the Super mutant bunker on a desk.
National Archives	Lower level in the northwest corner, in a room full of bookshelves. It is sitting on top of a school desk next to a pair of missiles.
National Archives	Sub-basement in the generator room behind a very hard locked gate.
National Guard depot	Depot Offices, on a long, wooden table near a pocket of radiation on the third floor.
Old Olney	In the Olney sewers, at the end of a rocky tunnel next to a skeleton.
Red Racer factory	Outside, to the north northeast, at scavenger's bridge. It is on a shelf together with copies of Chinese Army: Special Ops Training Manual and Grognak the Barbarian. Must be stolen.
SatCom Array NW-07c	To the northeast, halfway straight airline towards SatCom Array NW-05a: Down in the valley next to a few car wrecks. It's on the ground next to a skeleton and three ammunition boxes. Coordinates (1.4, 2.9) (Horizontal, Vertical Coordinates) according to Fallout 3 map. See map image attached below.
Springvale school	On the upper floor, next to the active computer terminal past the locked library doors.
Super-Duper Mart	To the north, in a camp under a bridge. Watch out for a landmine at the opening of the camp that will blow book away and sometimes glitch into the wall disappearing.
Tenpenny Tower	Just west of the tower, towards Warrington Trainyard, in a completely destroyed house on top of a shelf. This is just northeast of the mostly intact house.
Vault 92	In the Overseer's office on a shelf.
Wasteland gypsy village	Southeastern shack with the pile of skeletal remains. Behind the turned over table next to the mini nuke.

Skill books in Fallout 3 Big Book of Science · Chinese Army: Special Ops Training Manual · D.C. Journal of Internal Medicine · Dean's Electronics · Duck and Cover! · Grognak the Barbarian · Guns and Bullets · Lying, Congressional Style · Motivational Secrets of the Stars · Nikola Tesla and You · Paradise Lost · Pugilism Illustrated · Tales of a Junktown Jerky Vendor · Tumblers Today · U.S. Army: 30 Handy Flamethrower Recipes Skill books in italics are unique.