Nuclear War Survival Skills
Nuclear War Survival Skills or NWSS by Cresson Kearny is a civil defense manual. It contains information gleaned from research performed at Oak Ridge National Laboratory during the Cold War, as well as from Kearny's extensive jungle living and international travels.
The book aims to provide a general audience with advice on how to survive conditions likely to be encountered in the event of a nuclear catastrophe, as well as encouraging optimism in the face of such a catastrophe by asserting the survivability of a nuclear war.
The topics covered in NWSS include:
- Psychological and pre-crisis preparations
- Evacuation
- Shelter
- Ventilation and cooling
- Water
- Food
- Fire protection
- Fallout Meters
- Light
- Sanitation
- Medical issues and First Aid
- Permanent Shelters
This book was placed in the public domain by the author and is available in digital format for free online (see 'external links' below) and elsewhere. In the printed form a modest charge will generally be incurred. The printed book bears (ISBN 0-942487-01-X).
See also
- Blast shelter
- Bug-out bag
- Fallout shelter
- Kearny Fallout Meter
- Kearny Air Pump
- Effects of nuclear explosions on human health
- Potassium iodide
- Survivalism
- Duck-and-cover
- Protect and Survive
External links
- Online version of NWSS at Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine's homepage
- Another online version of NWSS
- Free PDF download of Nuclear War Survival Skills
- Red Cross preparations recommendations
- A Mother Thinks about Nuclear Survival, an editorial written by Jenny Hatch which references Cresson Kearny's Book
- Video Tour of Jenny Hatchs Storage Room with 72 Hour Kits Explained
- Survivalist website with vast information regarding many crisis scenarios, including nuclear war
