Author: Kearny Cresson H.
Brand: SKYHORSE
Edition: Expanded,Updated
Number Of Pages: 336
Details: Product Description
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.
About the Author
Don Mann’s impressive military resume includes being a decorated combat veteran; corpsman; SEAL special operations technician; jungle survival, desert survival, and arctic survival instructor; small arms weapons, foreign weapons, armed and unarmed defense tactics, and advanced hand-to-hand combat instructor; and Survival, Evade, Resistance, and Escape instructor, in addition to other credentials. He lives in Williamsburg, Virginia.
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Nuclear War Survival Skills
Lifesaving Nuclear Facts and Self-Help Instructions
By Cresson H. Kearny Skyhorse PublishingCopyright © 1986 Cresson H. Kearny
All rights reserved.
ISBN: 978-1-63450-297-9
Contents
INTRODUCTION by DON MANN,
FOREWORD by DR. EDWARD TELLER.,
ABOUT THE AUTHOR by DR. EUGENE P. WIGNER,
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS,
INTRODUCTION by Cresson H. Kearny,
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 Homemakeable KFMs in 1999,
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,
SELECTED REFERENCES,
1999 ADDENDUM ON HORMESIS,
CHAPTER 1
The Dangers from Nuclear Weapons: Myths and Facts
An all-out nuclear war between Russia and the United States would be the worst catastrophe in history, a tragedy so huge it is difficult to comprehend. Even so, it would be far from the end of human life on earth. The dangers from nuclear weapons have been distorted and exaggerated, for varied reasons. These exaggerations have become demoralizing myths, believed by millions of Americans.
While working with hundreds of Americans building expedient shelters and life-support equipment, I have found that many people at first see no sense in t
Release Date: 19-01-2016
Package Dimensions: 23x239x460
