 24 Hour Order Center
1-888-654-3447 |
||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||
|
Click here for Potassium Iodide and other Nuclear Survival Equipment
  
Definitions and explanations of terms are given on the listed pages. Because some terms are mentioned on up to 55 different pages, all pages on which some terms are listed are not included. For broad categories of information, see the Contents page.
Abnormalities from radiation, 16, 43, 44 Aerosol filters for biological warfare, 272 Air burst, 15, 16 Air pumps, see KAP, also see ventilation Air-slap of an air-blast wave, 259 Alpha radiation (or particles), and protection against, 44 Anhydrite, 26, 219 Atoms, radioactive, 12, 43, 44 Attack Warning Signal, 23 Attenuation of radiation, 14, 39 Auroras, artificial, 20
Batteries, conserving, 26, 100, 101 Beliefs, false re nuclear war, 5 Benches and bunks for shelters expedient, 117, 118 permanent, 144, 145 Bequerel (Bq), 96 Beta bums, and prevention of, 43, 44, 130, 131 Beta radiation (or particles), and protection against, 43, 44, 130 Biological warfare aerosol filters, 272 Biological weapons, 8 Blast areas, 29, 31, 243 doors, 252-255 effects, 15, 16, 28, 64 effects at distances from GZ, 28 injuries to eardrums and lungs, 252 negative phase (or negative pressure), 254-257 positive phase (or overpressure), 16, 65, 252 protector logs, 253-255 tests, 61 valve, expedient, 256, 257 wave, 24 wind, 63, 64 wind erosion, 245 Blindness, flash, 44 Bodies, disposal of, 105 Bombers, enemy, 25 Bq (bequerel), 96 Bucket Stove, 79-82 Burns from bets radiations (or particles), 43, 44, 130 from heated air, 45 from the popcorning effect, 44, 45 from thermal pulse (heat rays) causing flash burns, 43, 44 of the eye, 44 Bursts, nuclear air, 15 high altitude, 20 surface, 11
Cancer from gamma radiation (ray) doses from trans-Pacific fallout, 152 risk estimates, 110, 111, 152-154 Candle-lamps, 149 Candles, 149 Canopies over entries, 41, 158, 159 Car, loading for evacuation, 34 Carbon dioxide, dangers from fires, 61 respiration (exhaled breath), 53, 56 Carbon monoxide, dangers from candles, 149 fires, 56, 61, 64, 65, 138, 148 smoking, 53 Cesium, radioactive, 76 cfm (cubic feet per minute) of air needed, 51-53, 59, 60 Chair, Bedsheet, 119-124 Chemical weapons, 8 Chernobyl disaster, 112, 152-154 Chimney effect (for ventilation), 51, 52 Chinese test explosion's worldwide fallout, 151, 152 Civil defense American (budget only), 6 Chinese, 58, 63, 71, 248-252 Russian, 6, 7, 18, 56, 57, 65 Swiss, 6 Clothing and footwear, expedient beta burns, protection against, 43, 44, 130, 131 cold weather, 125-127 keeping warm without fire, 129 mask, fallout, 130, 131 rainwear, including rain chaps, 129 sandals, 129, 130 winter footwear, 127, 128 Cooking and heating in a permanent shelter, 148, 149 Cooking, expedient Bucket Stove, 79-82 Fireless Cooker, 82, 148 grain and beans, 82,83 wheat balls and corn balls, 148, 149 Crater of explosion, 11, 12 Crisis evacuation, 6, 31 preparations made during, 6 simulation during field tests, 36 Cuban Missile Crisis, 5 Cutting trees and poles, 157, 158
Decay, radioactive, 12, 13 Defense Nuclear Agency blast tests, 68, 244 Diarrhea, 77 Diets, see Food Digging with pick and shovel, 156 Directional Fanning (ventilation) importance of, 58 instructions, 59, 60 Distillation of water, 72 Doors, blast, expedient, 252-255 Dose, radiation, 12, 30, 39, 110, 111 Dose rate, radiation, 12, 13 Dose rate meters (survey meters), 12, 94 commercial sources, 96, 97 homemade, see KFM war reserves of, 95 Dosimeters, 12, 94, 95 commercial sources, 96, 97 war reserves, 95 Dragging logs and poles, 157 Dresden firestorm, 65
Earth arching, 42 Earth rolls (earth-filled rolls), 156, 157 EBS (Emergency Broadcasting System), 23 Effective Temperature (ET), 52, 53 Electric power vulnerabilities, 23, 24, 47, 72 Electromagnetic pulse (EMP) effects, 23, 24 NAWAS, unprotected against EMP, 22 protection against, 23, 26 Emergency Broadcasting System (EBS), 23 Emergency operating Center (EOC), 23 EMP, see electromagnetic pulse End of mankind propaganda, 5, 11, 16-19 Entrance (entryway) cover, 275, 276 Entries, vertical, for shelters, expedient, 41, 174, 175, 249-252 permanent, 142-144, 273-275 280 ET (Effective Temperature), 52, 53 Evacuation, 27-35 by car, 34 check list, 32, 33 during crisis, 6, 31 spontaneous, 31 whether to, 31, 32, 47 Exit, emergency, 142-144 Exit housing, multi-purpose, 273-275 Exotic weapons, 8 "Expedient", definition of, 5
Fallout attenuation (by shielding) of fallout radiation, 16, 39 beta burns from fallout, 43 clouds, 28, 55 clouds, stabilized, 27, 28 decay (of fallout radiation dose rate), 12, 43 deposition, times required for, 12, 13, 55 extent of, 25 high-risk areas, 29 highest-risk areas, 29 local, 15 origins of, 12 particles, 12, 43, 54, 55 patterns, 27 Trans-Pacific, 113, 151-154 weathering of, 13 Fallout masks, expedient, 130, 131 Fallout (radiation) meters, see Dose rate meters, also see Dosimeters Famine relief by trucked grain, 74 Fear, 20 Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), 6 FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency), 6 Fertility after nuclear war, 16, 76 Field tests (families building expedient shelters), 35, 36-42, 50, 155 Filter, and homemade filter box, 271, 272 Fire carbon dioxide, fire-caused dangers, 61 carbon monoxide, 53, 54, 56, 61 causes of, 64 dangers, relative, 61, 64 easily ignitable materials, 14 forest and brush, 61 homes, 48, 62 oxygen depletion by, 61 protective measures, including whitewashing, 61, 63 secondary causes after blast, 61, 64 thermal radiation (ignition from fireball), 61, 62 urban, 61, 65 Fireball, 11, 15, 44, 61, 62 Fireless Cookers, 82, 148 Firestorms, 14, 61, 65 Flash blindness, 44 Flash burns, 44 Food baby foods, emergency, 89-91 basic survival ration to store, 88, 89, 147 contamination by fallout, and decontamination, 16 expedient processing, 77-79 flotation, of grain hulls, 78 grain and bean diets, 83-85, 88, 89 loss of animals, 75 meat, precautions post-attack, 75 minimum needs, 75, 76 multi-year storage, foods for, 88 nutrients, essential, expedient ways to provide animal protein, minimum requirement, 87 fat, 87 iron, 87 niacin and calcium, 86, 87 vitamin A, 86 vitamin C, 84-86 vitamin D, 86 one year supply, 146-148 requirements, daily, 84, 85 reserves in U.S., 87, 88 salt requirements, 53, 66, 83-86, 92 sieving husks from flour and meal, 78 sprouting, 85, 86 storage, 88-92, 105, 146 survival ration, basic, to store, 88, 89, 147 Footwear, expedient, 127-129 Furnishings for shelters Bedsheet-Chair, 124 Bedsheet-Hammock, 119-123 benches, seats, and bunks, 117, 118, 144
Gamma radiation (rays), 14, 38-40, 94 Genetic damage from radiation, 16 Glass windows, dangers from, 24, 25 Grain mills expedient, 77 hand-cranked, 148 Grains, grinding with farm machinery, 78 Gray (Gy) (unit of absorbed radiation dose), 96 Ground zero (GZ), 15
Halving-thickness of shielding material, 13, 14 Hammock, Bedsheet-, 119-123 H-bomb, 43 Help from fellow Americans, 21 Hewing flat, square sides on logs, 253, 255 Hiroshima, 15, 16, 44, 61, 64, 244 survivors, 21 warning, inadequate, 22 Hot-spots of radiation, 55
ICBM (Intercontinental Ballistic Missile), 23-25 sites, 29, 30 "In Time of Emergency", 45, 57 Infection prevention, 103-107 Initial nuclear radiation (from fireball), 15, 257-259 Insects, control by screens, etc., 51, 101, 104, 106, 141 Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM), 23-25 Iodine, tincture of, as prophylactic on skin, 116 Iodine, radioactive, 60,72, 111-115, 152-154
KAP (Kearny Air Pump), expedient advantages proven by tests, 50-54 instructions, complete, for making and using, 193-212 KFM (Kearny Fallout Meter), expedient dose rate meter advantages proven by tests, 97-99 instructions, complete with patterns, for making and using, 213-239 instructions, with tabloid layout sheet, for tabloid reproductions of the KFM instructions, 241-242 needed materials and tools: only those found in millions of homes, 97, 218, 219 untrained Amen cans who have made KFMs, 97, 99, 194 Kearny Air Pump, see KAP Kearny Fallout Meter, see KFM KI cc Potassium iodide Kiloton (KT), 17
Lamps, commercial, 101 Lamps, expedient, 101, 102 Life-support equipment for shelters, 45 Light for shelters candles, 101, 149 electric, with batteries and bulbs, 100, 101 daylight, through exit housing, 275 for permanent shelter, 149, 150 lamps, expedient, 101, 102 minimum needed, 100 Log dragging, 157
MAD (Mutual Assured Destruction), 6 Mask, expedient, fallout and dust, 43, 54, 130, 131 281 Megaton (MT), 14 Midgetman, 55 MIRV, Multiple Independently-targeted Reentry vehicle, 27 Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD), 6 Myths about nuclear war, 11-19
Nagasaki, 13, 15-17, 21, 44, 243 National Academy of Sciences, findings and recommendations, 16, 53, 54, 110 National Shelter Survey (NSS), 47 National Warning System (NAWAS), 22 Nausea, 65 Navy shelter-occupancy tests, 52, 53 NAWAS (National Warning System), 22 Neglect, benign, 108, 109 Neutron warheads, 8 NSS (National Shelter Survey), 47 Nuclear attacks, types of, 7 Nuclear explosions, limits on destructiveness, 15-17 Nuclear weapons, accuracy and targets, 7 "Nuclear winter" theory, 17-
 
Occupancy field tests of expedient shelters, 51, 52, 117-119 Occupancy field tests of permanent shelters, 52, 53, 66, 106 Overkill, 16, 17 Oxygen, lack of, 61
Paralysis, emotional, 20, 21 Pellagra, 86 PF (protection factor), 14, 29, 42, 134 Picocurie, 154 Plutonium, 43 Poles and logs, cutting and dragging, 157, 158 Popcorning effect, skin burns, 44, 45 Population relocation (crisis evacuation), 6, 31 Potassium iodide (KI) doses for thyroid protection during and after nuclear war, 113, 114, 116, doses for thyroid protection during and after peacetime nuclear accidents, 111-113, 116 expedient ways to prepare and take, 115, 116 FDA official patient information, 112, 113 prophylactic use for protection against Trans-Pacific fallout, 152, 153 ways to obtain, 114 Protection factor (PF), 14, 29, 42, 134 "Protection in the Nuclear Age", 45, 57 psi (pounds per square inch), 15 Psychology of Survival, 20, 21 Public shelters, 47, 48 Pump, Double-Action Piston, instructions for making and ventilating shelters with, 261-270 Punkah (fan), 50
R (roentgen), 94, 110 Rad, 110 Radiation doses delayed effects, 13 genetic injuries from, 16 lethal, 13, 94 lifetime risks from, 110, 111 non-incapacitating, 13 whole-body, 13 Radiation meters for measuring fallout commercially available models, 96 critical need for, 94 KFM (expedient), see KFM maintenance and calibration of factory made meters, 97 war reserves, 95 warnings to buyers, 95 Radiation sickness, 110, 111 Radiation world wide effects, 110 Radioactive decay, 12 Radios, how to keep operating, 26 Rain-outs (of fallout particles), 29, 55 Rainwear, 129 Rem, 110 Respiratory diseases, control of, 107 Risk areas, high, highest, 29-31 Roentgen (R), 94, 110 Runways, long, targeted, 24 Russian civil defense, 6, 7, 18, 56, 57, 65
Salt requirements, 53, 66, 83-86 Sanitation in shelters, expedient disposal of corpses, 105 disposal of excrement and urine, 104, 105 disposal of vomit, 105 food, 105, 106 insect control, 104, 106, 141 personal possessions, 106 Scavenging of fallout particles, 55 Screens, insect, 44, 106, 141 Scurvy, 84, 85 SDI (Strategic Defense Initiative), 5 Seeds to Store, 92, 93 Shelter Survey, National (NSS), 47 Shelter types, advantages and disadvantages of, 47-49 Shelters as post-attack homes, 273-276 needs often overlooked, 150 practice living in, 150 Shelters, blast, expedient, 7, 49 construction principles, 245-255 doors, 252-255 entryways, 242-252 increasing importance of, 243 tests of, 244-246, 248 ventilation, 255 Shelters, blast, permanent, 7, 49 Shelters, fallout, against beta and alpha radiation (particles), 43, 44 Shelters, fallout, expedient, 7 basement, 45, 46 building experiments, 36-42 building instructions, general, 155-159 Car-Over-Trench, 54 earth-covered (shielded), 35, 36, 47-49, 65 instructions, detailed, for six types, see Contents page snow-covered (shielded), 48, 158 Shelters, fallout, official civil defense (FEMA) instructions, 45 Shelters, fallout, permanent, 7 Shelters, fallout, permanent family, 134-150 Shelters, fallout, public, 47, 48 Shielding barrier, 39 geometry, 39, 40 Shielding materials, halving thicknesses, 13, 14 Shock wave (blast wave), 44 Sievert (Sv) (dose equivalent), 96 Skin diseases, prevention of, 106, 107 Skyshine, 39, 41 SLBM, targets of and arrival times, 23-25, 31 Snow for shielding, 158 Snow-outs (of fallout), 55 Soviet nuclear strategy, 27 Star Wars, 5 Stove, expedient, for cooking and heating, 79-82 Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), 5 Strontium, radioactive, 76 Submarine launched ballistic missiles (SLBMs), and targets of, 23-25, 31 Surface burst, 11 Survey meters (dose rate meters), 12, 94, 96, 97 Surviving without doctors (self-help), 108-116 Sv (Sievert) (dose equivalent), 96 Swiss civil defense budget, 6
Tactical warning, 22, 24 Targets, probable, 16, 29, 31 Television and EMP, 23, 24 Temperature, effective, 52 Terror, 20 Thermal (heat) radiation from fireball ignitions by, 14,61-63 other effects, 44 protective measures, 61-63 282 Thirst, 66 Three Mile Island accident, 152 Thumb-test for stable earth, 155 Thyroid abnormalities, damage to Marshall Islanders, 111 by other exposures to radioactive iodine, 111, 152 Thyroid abnormalities, prevention of by means other than prophylactic potassium iodide, 115, 116 by prophylactic potassium iodide, see Potassium iodide Toilets, expedient, 103, 104 Toxins, bacterial, 75 Transistors, EMP damage, 26 Tree felling, 157 Trench digging, 156 Tunnel shelters at Nagasaki, 15
Ultraviolet, post-attack, exaggerations of dangers, 17 Urination and water, minimum needs, 66
Ventilation, shelter, safe times for stopping, 272 Ventilation-cooling of shelters cold weather, 53 cooling before occupying, 54 filtered sir, 54 forced, by expedient air pumps, see KAP, also see Directional Fanning, also see Appendix E hot weather, 52, 53 inhalation dangers, 54, 55 natural, 53 need for shelter air pumps, 193, 194 requirements, 50-53, 56 through multi-purpose exit housing, 273, 274 warnings re official instructions, 56-58 without filters, 54 Vitamins, expedient ways to provide niacin, 86, 87 vitamin A, 86 vitamin C, 84-86 vitamin D, 86 Vomiting, 104
Warnings of attack, 22-25 given by the attack itself, 23-25 how to respond to, 25 NAWAS, 22,23 types of, 22 Water, 66-74 bags, expedient, for carrying and storing, 66-68 bail-can for wells, 71 disinfecting boiling, 70 chlorine bleach, 69, 70 tincture of iodine, 2%, 70 filtering, including removal of radioactivity, 71-74 minimum needs, 66 permanent shelter, supplies for, 145, 146 requirements, 66 salt needs with, 66 siphoning, 69, 70 sources, 71 storage pits, 66 storing for years, 145 storing in expedient containers, 67-69 Weathering effects, reducing fallout hazards, 13 Windows, dangers from shattered glass, 24, 25
X-rays, 12, 13
| ||||||||||||||||||