Survive the Bomb: The Radioactive Citizen's Guide to Nuclear Survival. This item is unavailable.Survive the Bomb: The Radioactive Citizen's Guide to Nuclear Survival

 

Attention, citizens and fellow travelers of the Cold War: Survive the Bomb is your family’s ultimate fallout shelter companion. Keep this book at the ready next to the emergency drinking water and vacuum-packed canned meats and vegetables for that moment when the saber-rattling between the world’s superpowers turns Atomic.   Here are all the tips and information you’ll need to keep your family safe and secure: ·      A convenient set of Civil Defense carrying cards for your wallet or purse ·      Steps for the home handyman toward building a well-furnished fallout shelter ·      How to convert your home’s snack bar into a cozy secondary shelter ·      A checklist of items you’ll need close at hand while awaiting the “all-clear” message from local authorities ·      An Operation Survival! comic, including a crossword puzzle and quiz for the kids ·      Revealing studies, reports, and recommendations to the United States Congress and President ·      Wargame scenarios, aftermath descriptions, and casualty estimates at various distances from a nuclear blast ·      An introduction and commentaries by Cold War historian Eric G. Swedin   Be alert and be prepared. Don’t let a little thing like an atomic particle spoil your day.

 

 

 

Eric G. Swedin is an associate professor at Weber State University and the auhtor of five books, including When Angels Wept: A What-If History of the Cuban Missile Crisis. He lives near Ogden, Utah.