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Edition Notes
Table of Contents
Book Order Form
Foreword Nuclear War
About the Author
Acknowledgments
Survival
Introduction
Ch. 1: The Dangers...
Ch. 2: Warnings an...
Skills
Ch. 3: Psychologic...
Ch. 4: Evacuation
Ch. 5: Shelter, th...
Ch. 6: Ventilation...

Ch. 7: Protection ...
Ch. 8: Water
Ch. 9: Food
Ch. 10: Fallout Ra... Updated and Expanded

Ch. 11: Light
Ch. 12: Shelter Sa...
Ch. 13: Surviving ...
1987 Edition
Ch. 14: Expedient ...
Ch. 15: Improvised...
Ch. 16: Minimum Pr...
Ch. 17: Permanent ...
Ch. 18: Trans-Paci...
App. A: Instructio...
App. A.1: Door-Cov... Cresson H. Kearny
App. A.2: Pole-Cov...
App. A.3: Small-Po...
App. A.4: Abovegro...

App. A.5: Abovegro...
App. A.6: Above gr...
App. B: How to Mak... With Foreword by Dr. Edward Teller
App. C: A Homemade...
App. D: Expedient ...

App. E: How to Mak...
App. F: Providing ...
Selected References Original Edition Published September, 1979,
Selected Index
Graphics by Oak Ridge National Laboratory,
a Facility of the
U.S. Department of Energy

Published by the
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Cave Junction, Oregon
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Copyright (c) 1986 by Cresson H. Kearny
Cresson H. Kearny's additions to the Oak Ridge National Laboratory original 1979 edition are the only
parts covered by this copyright, and are printed in this type print to distinguish these additions from the
original uncopyrighted parts. The uncopyrighted parts are printed in a different type of print (like this).
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Copyright (c) 1986 by Cresson H. Kearny. The copyrighted material may be reproduced without
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for microfiche reproductions), and (2) the part of this copyright notice within quotation marks is printed
along with the copyrighted material."

First printing May 1987
Second printing November 1988
Third printing September 1990

ISBN 0-942487-01-X

Library of Congress Catalogue Card Number 87-60790
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Cover
Edition Notes
Table of Contents
Book Order Form • Updated and Expanded 1987
Foreword Top Previous Next Edition
About the Author
• Introduction to: Nuclear War
Acknowledgments
Updated and Expanded 1987 Edition Survival Skills
Introduction
Ch. 1: The Dangers...
Ch. 2: Warnings an... The purpose of this book is to provide Americans and other unprepared people
Ch. 3: Psychologic...
with information and self-help instructions that will significantly increase their
Ch. 4: Evacuation
chances of surviving a nuclear attack. It brings together field- tested instructions
Ch. 5: Shelter, th...
Ch. 6: Ventilation... that, if followed by a large fraction of Americans during a crisis that precedes an
Ch. 7: Protection ...
attack, could save millions of lives. The author is convinced that the
Ch. 8: Water
vulnerability especially of Americans to nuclear threat or attack must be
Ch. 9: Food
Ch. 10: Fallout Ra... reduced and that the wide dissemination of the information contained in this

Ch. 11: Light
book will help preserve peace with freedom.
Ch. 12: Shelter Sa...
Ch. 13: Surviving ...
Underlying the advocacy of Americans learning these down-to-earth survival
Ch. 14: Expedient ...
Ch. 15: Improvised... skills is the belief that if one prepares for the worst, the worst is less likely to
Ch. 16: Minimum Pr... happen. Effective American civil defense preparations would reduce the
Ch. 17: Permanent ...
probability of nuclear blackmail and war. Yet in our world of increasing
Ch. 18: Trans-Paci...
App. A: Instructio... dangers, it is significant that the United States spends much less per capita on
App. A.1: Door-Cov... civil defense than many other countries. The United States' annual funding is
App. A.2: Pole-Cov...
about 50 cents per capita, and only a few cents of this is spent on war-related
App. A.3: Small-Po...
App. A.4: Abovegro... civil defense. Unless U.S. civil defense policies are improved, you are unlikely
App. A.5: Abovegro... to receive from official sources much of the survival information given in this
App. A.6: Above gr...
book.
App. B: How to Mak...
App. C: A Homemade...
Over 400,000 copies of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory original 1979
App. D: Expedient ...
App. E: How to Mak... edition of Nuclear War Survival Skills have been sold by various private
App. F: Providing ...
publishers. A few additions and modifications, some helpful and others harmful,
Selected References
were made in several of these private printings. This updated and expanded
Selected Index
Graphics edition is needed because of changes in nuclear weapons and strategies between
1979 and 1987, and because of improvements in self-help survival equipment
and instructions.
The 1987 edition provides current information on how the Soviet Union's continuing deployment of
smaller, more accurate, more numerous warheads should affect your shelter- building and evacuation
plans.
In the first chapter the myths and facts about the consequences of a massive nuclear attack are discussed.
Two post-1979 myths have been added: the myth of blinding post-attack increased ultra-violet sunlight,
and the myth of unsurvivable "nuclear winter" - along with refuting facts.
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A new chapter, "Permanent Family Fallout Shelters for Dual Use", has been added, because the author
has received many requests for instructions for building permanent small shelters better and less
expensive than those described in official civil defense hand-outs. Another new chapter, "Trans-Pacific
Fallout" tells how to reduce radiation dangers that you will face if one or more nations use nuclear
weapons, but none are exploded on America.
Improved instructions are given for making and using a KFM, based on the findings of numerous
builders since 1979. (The KFM still is the only accurate and dependable fallout radiation meter that
millions of average people can make for themselves in a few hours, using only common household
materials - if they have these improved instructions with patterns.) Field-tested instructions for easily
made Directional Fans, the simplest means for pumping air, have been added to the "Ventilation and
Cooling of Shelters" chapter. Also included in this book are scores of other new facts and updatings
likely to help save lives if nuclear war strikes.
A new appendix gives instructions for a home makeable Plywood Double-Action Piston Pump, inspired
by a wooden air pump the author saw being used in China in 1982.
This first-of-its-kind book is primarily a compilation and summary of civil defense measures developed
at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and elsewhere over the past 24 years, and field tested by typical
untrained Americans in many states, from Florida to Washington. The reader is urged to make at least
some of these low-cost preparations before a crisis arises. The main emphasis, however, is on survival
preparations that could be made in the last few days of a worsening crisis.
The author wrote the original, uncopyrighted Nuclear War Survival Skills while working as a
research engineer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. As a result, he has no proprietary rights and
has gotten nothing but satisfaction from past sales. Nor will he gain materially from future sales, as
can be judged by reading his copyright notice covering this edition. Civil defense professionals and
others concerned with providing better self-help survival information can reproduce parts or all of
this 1987 edition without getting permission from anyone, provided they comply with the terms of
the copyright notice.
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Introduction to: Nuclear War Survival Skills
by Edward Teller
January 14, 1994
With the collapse of the Soviet Union, the unimaginable catastrophe of all out nuclear war has become
truly im- probable. At the same time this unexpected event taught a lesson: being prepared for trouble
may help to eliminate the source of trouble. Perhaps, after all, the atomic age might become a happy age.
Possible but not yet probable. Proliferation of nuclear weapons is more of a danger than ever before. But
the danger is now different. What may happen is still horrible but it is no longer a catastrophe beyond our
power of de- scribing it or preventing it.
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As long as the superpowers faced each other with tens of thousands of megaton-class weapons, any
defense seemed insufficient. It was a palliative of unclear war. It played more of a role as part of the
deterrent. To many of us it seemed to be a necessity. But in efforts to convince the general public we
made little progress. The question could not be resolved by reason alone.
The problem of ideological conflict is disappearing. The problem of a violent dictator is still with us.
With weap- ons of mass destruction he could do enormous damage. Furthermore, the proliferation of
ballistic missiles is not a pos- sibility but a frightening and growing reality. But we are now no longer
facing tens of thousands of weapons. We need to worry about at most hundreds. Defense, therefore, has
become a rational possibility.
But if defense is possible, it is also most important for four connected but, at the same time, distinct
reasons. One is that in the case of war defense may save many thousands, maybe even millions of lives. I
do not disagree with those who say that the main problem is to prevent war itself. I do disagree when
prevention of war is considered the only problem.
The second reason is that defense helps to prevent proliferation of weapons of aggression. If defense is
ne- glected these weapons of attack become effective. They become available and desirable in the eyes of
an imperialist dictator, even if his means are limited. Weapons of mass destruction could become
equalizers between nations big and small, highly developed and primitive, if defense is neglected. If
defense is developed and if it is made available for general prevention of war, weapons of aggression will
become less desirable. Thus defense makes war itself less probable. The third reason is of a most general
character. One psychological defense mechanism against danger is to forget about it. This attitude is as
common as it is disastrous. It may turn a limited danger into a fatal difficulty.
The last and most important reason is that the world has become thoroughly interdependent and the time
has come for the positive use of this interdependence. International cooperation is obviously difficult. It
lacks any tradi- tion. It is best started by modest activities that are obviously in everyone's interest.
War-prevention by defense seems to be a good candidate for such cooperation. This would be
particularly true if the effort would be both modest and effective. This book is an excellent example of an
international initiative that with a minimal effort could have a maximal beneficial effect. It describes
simple procedures of individual defensive measures which should be used in many areas of danger
including those where it is wrongly believed that defense is impossible. It can be used in advanced
countries and in countries at an early stage of development. Electronics makes the book available
throughout the world.
This book will not satisfy the demands of those who are interested only in final solutions. Indeed, I do
not believe that final solutions exist. The more important and difficult a problem is the more it becomes
evident that the answer lies in a careful development consisting of small steps. This book prepares us,
throughout the world, for one of the small steps that must be taken if the twenty-first century is to escape
the curse of war.
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Cover
Edition Notes
Table of Contents
Foreword by Dr. Edward Teller 6
Book Order Form
Foreword About the Author by Dr. Eugene P. Wigner 10
About the Author Acknowledgements 12
Acknowledgments
Introduction 14
Introduction
Ch. 1: The Dangers...
Ch. 2: Warnings an...
Chapter 1 The Dangers from Nuclear Weapons: Myths and Facts 21
Ch. 3: Psychologic...
Chapter 2 Psychological Preparations 31
Ch. 4: Evacuation
Ch. 5: Shelter, th... Chapter 3 Warnings and Communications 33
Ch. 6: Ventilation...
Chapter 4 Evacuation 40
Ch. 7: Protection ...
Chapter 5 Shelter, the Greatest Need 49
Ch. 8: Water
Ch. 9: Food Chapter 6 Ventilation and Cooling of Shelters 65
Ch. 10: Fallout Ra...
Chapter 7 Protection Against Fires and Carbon Monoxide 81
Ch. 11: Light
Chapter 8 Water 85
Ch. 12: Shelter Sa...
Ch. 13: Surviving ... Chapter 9 Food 95
Ch. 14: Expedient ...
Chapter 10 Fallout Radiation Meters 119
Ch. 15: Improvised...

Ch. 16: Minimum Pr...
Ch. 17: Permanent ... Chapter 11 Light 127
Ch. 18: Trans-Paci...
Chapter 12 Shelter Sanitation and Preventive Medicine 130
App. A: Instructio...
App. A.1: Door-Cov... Chapter 13 Surviving Without Doctors 136
App. A.2: Pole-Cov... Chapter 14 Expedient Shelter Furnishings 149
App. A.3: Small-Po...
Chapter 15 Improvised Clothing and Protective Items 156
App. A.4: Abovegro...
App. A.5: Abovegro... Chapter 16 Minimum Pre-Crisis Preparations 164
App. A.6: Above gr... Chapter 17 Permanent Family Fallout Shelters for Dual Use 167
App. B: How to Mak...
Chapter 18 Trans-Pacific Fallout 188
App. C: A Homemade...
App. D: Expedient ...
App. E: How to Mak...
Appendices
App. F: Providing ...
Selected References A Instructions for Six Expedient Fallout Shelters 193
Selected Index A.1 Door-Covered Trench Shelter 198
Graphics
A.2 Pole-Covered Trench Shelter 203
A.3 Small-Pole Shelter 208
A.4 Aboveground, Door-Covered Shelter 215
A.5 Aboveground, Ridgepole Shelter 221
A.6 Above ground, Crib-Walled Shelter 228
B How to Make and Use a HomemadeShelter-Ventilating Pump, the KAP 234
C A HOMEMADE FALLOUT METER, THE K.F.M. - HOW TO 253
MAKE AND USE IT
D Expedient Blast Shelters 284
E How to Make and Use a Homemade Plywood Double Action Piston 300
Pump and Filter
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F Means for Providing Improved Natural Ventilation and Daylight to a 319
Shelter with an Emergency Exit
Selected References 323
Selected Index 326
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• Jungle Snafus and Remedies
About the Author
Acknowledgments • Biographical Information and
Nuclear War Survival Skills
Introduction Unique Qualifications
Ch. 1: The Dangers...
Ch. 2: Warnings an... This book should be in every American home and place of business. It should
Ch. 3: Psychologic...
be a part of all civilian and military defense preparations. In this nuclear age,
Ch. 4: Evacuation
prior preparation and knowledge are the primary elements of survival during
Ch. 5: Shelter, th...
Ch. 6: Ventilation... nuclear war, biological and chemical attack, and other man-made or natural
Ch. 7: Protection ...
disasters. This book provides that essential knowledge.
Ch. 8: Water
Ch. 9: Food
It is published on a non-profit, non-royalty basis by the Oregon Institute of
Ch. 10: Fallout Ra...

Ch. 11: Light Science and Medicine (a 501 [c] [3] public foundation). These low prices also
Ch. 12: Shelter Sa...
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Ch. 13: Surviving ...
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Ch. 15: Improvised... distribution of this updated and enlarged edition.
Ch. 16: Minimum Pr...
Ch. 17: Permanent ...
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Ch. 18: Trans-Paci...
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