Be prepared for the worst case scenario with 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 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:
Cresson H. Kearny?was a graduate of the Texas Military Institute and of Princeton University. He worked for Standard Oil in Venezuela and served in the US Army as a captain in the Panama Mobile Force. Many of his jungle-tested inventions were used by US infantrymen in WWII. In 1964, Kearny joined the Oak Ridge National Laboratory civil defense project, which is where the research supporting his book?Nuclear War Survival Skills?was conducted. He died in 2003.
Don Mann?is an ex-Navy SEAL, an athlete, and a prolific author of Navy SEAL-related fiction and nonfiction. He has made numerous television appearances across all major networks and has written pieces for?Time,?Newsweek,?Runner's World,?Men's Fitness,?Huffington Post, CNN.com,?Wall Street Journal,?Washington Post, and many more. He lives in Miami, Florida.
Dr. Edward Teller?(1908-2003) was a theoretical physicist known colloquially as "the father of the hydrogen bomb." He was a key member of the Manhattan Project during WWII.
Eugene P. Wigner?(1902-1995) was a noted theoretical physicist and mathematician. He received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1963.
