Book- Nuclear War Survival Skills: Lifesaving Nuclear Facts and Self-Help Instructions
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Be prepared for the worst case scenario with t this field-tested guide to surviving a nuclear attack, written by a revered civil defense expert.
This edition of Cresson H. Kearny’s iconic Nuclear War Survival Skills (originally published in 1979 and updated by Kearny himself in 1987 and again in 2001), offers expert advice for ensuring your family’s safety should the worst come to pass.
Chock-full of practical instructions and preventative measures, Nuclear War Survival Skills is based on years of meticulous scientific research conducted by Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
Featuring a new introduction by ex-Navy SEAL and New York Times bestselling author Don Mann, this book also includes:
Instructions for six different fallout shelters
Food and water
Myths and facts about the dangers of nuclear weapons
Tips for maintaining an adequate food and water supply
Shelter sanitation and preventive medicine
Surviving without doctors
A foreword by “the father of the hydrogen bomb,” physicist Dr. Edward Teller,
An “About the Author” note by Eugene P. Wigner, physicist and Nobel Laureate.
Written at a time when global tensions were at their peak, Nuclear War Survival Skills remains relevant in the dangerous age in which we now live.
CHAPTER 1 — The Dangers from Nuclear Weapons: Myths and Facts,
CHAPTER 2 — Psychological Preparations,
CHAPTER 3 — Warnings and Communications,
CHAPTER 4 — Evacuation,
CHAPTER 5 — Shelter, the Greatest Need,
CHAPTER 6 — Ventilation and Cooling of Shelters,
CHAPTER 7 — Protection Against Fires and Carbon Monoxide,
CHAPTER 8 — Water,
CHAPTER 9 — Food,
CHAPTER 10 — Fallout Radiation Meters,
Primary Source of Materials for Home-makeable KFMs,
CHAPTER 11 — Light,
CHAPTER 12 — Shelter Sanitation and Preventive Medicine,
CHAPTER 13 — Surviving Without Doctors,
CHAPTER 14 — Expedient Shelter Furnishings,
CHAPTER 15 — Improvised Clothing and Protective Items,
CHAPTER 16 — Minimum Pre-Crisis Preparations,
CHAPTER 17 — Permanent Family Fallout Shelters for Dual Use,
CHAPTER 18 — Trans-Pacific Fallout,
APPENDICES,
A — Instructions for Six Expedient Fallout Shelters,
B — How to Make and Use a Homemade Shelter-Ventilating Pump, the KAP,
C — Instructions for a Homemade Fallout Meter,
D — Expedient Blast Shelters,
E — How to Make and Use a Homemade Plywood Double-Action Piston Pump and Filter,
F — Means for Providing Improved Ventilation and Daylight to a Shelter with an Emergency Exit,
320 pages.
CHAPTER 1 — The Dangers from Nuclear Weapons: Myths and Facts,
CHAPTER 2 — Psychological Preparations,
CHAPTER 3 — Warnings and Communications,
CHAPTER 4 — Evacuation,
CHAPTER 5 — Shelter, the Greatest Need,
CHAPTER 6 — Ventilation and Cooling of Shelters,
CHAPTER 7 — Protection Against Fires and Carbon Monoxide,
CHAPTER 8 — Water,
CHAPTER 9 — Food,
CHAPTER 10 — Fallout Radiation Meters,
Primary Source of Materials for Home-makeable KFMs,
CHAPTER 11 — Light,
CHAPTER 12 — Shelter Sanitation and Preventive Medicine,
CHAPTER 13 — Surviving Without Doctors,
CHAPTER 14 — Expedient Shelter Furnishings,
CHAPTER 15 — Improvised Clothing and Protective Items,
CHAPTER 16 — Minimum Pre-Crisis Preparations,
CHAPTER 17 — Permanent Family Fallout Shelters for Dual Use,
CHAPTER 18 — Trans-Pacific Fallout,
APPENDICES,
A — Instructions for Six Expedient Fallout Shelters,
B — How to Make and Use a Homemade Shelter-Ventilating Pump, the KAP,
C — Instructions for a Homemade Fallout Meter,
D — Expedient Blast Shelters,
E — How to Make and Use a Homemade Plywood Double-Action Piston Pump and Filter,
F — Means for Providing Improved Ventilation and Daylight to a Shelter with an Emergency Exit,