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LCNO |
87060790 |
Summary |
Lifesaving Facts and Self- Help Instructions, Nuclear War Survival Skills, updated and expanded 1987 edition, by Cresson H. Kearny, author of the original 1979 Oak Ridge National Laboratory edition. Foreword by Dr. Edward Teller Summary Foreword Introduction Chapters: I. The Dangers from Nuclear Weapons: Myths and Facts 2. Psychological Preparations 3. Warnings and Communications 4. Evacuation 5. Shelter, the Greatest Need 6. Ventilation and Cooling of Shelters 7. Protection Against Fires and Carbon Monoxide 8. Water 9. Food 10. Fallout Radiation Meters 11. Light 12. Shelter Sanitation and Preventive Medicine 13. Surviving Without Doctors 14. Expedient Shelter Furnishings 15. Improvised Clothing and Protective Items 16. Minimum Pre-Crisis Preparations 17. Permanent Family Fallout Shelters for Dual Use 18. Trans-Pacific Fallout Appendices A. Instructions for Six Expedient Fallout Shelters B. How to Make and Use Homemade Fallout Meter 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 Selected Index |
Object Name |
Book |
Author |
Cresson H. Kearny |
Subjects |
Nuclear War Survival Skills Nuclear warfare--Safety measures. Radioactivity--Safety measures. Survival |
Title |
Nuclear War Survival Skills |
Publisher |
Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine |
Published Date |
1987 |
Published Place |
Cave Junction, Oregon |
Physical Description |
Soft Cover 8 1/2" x 11" 282 pages, illus. |
Language |
English |
Catalog Number |
17.17.1 |
ISBN |
094248701X |