Nuclear War Survival Skills or NWSS by Cresson Kearny is a civil defense manual. It contains information gleaned from research performed at Oak Ridge National Laboratory during the Cold War, as well as from Kearny's extensive jungle living and international travels.

The book aims to provide a general audience with advice on how to survive conditions likely to be encountered in the event of a nuclear catastrophe.

The topics covered in NWSS include:

• Psychological and pre-crisis preparations
• Evacuation
• Shelter
• Ventilation and cooling
• Water
• Food
• Fire protection
• Fallout Meters
• Light
• Sanitation
• Medical issues and First Aid
• Permanent Shelters

This book was placed in the public domain by the author and is available in digital format for free online (see 'external links' below) and elsewhere. In the printed form a modest charge will generally be incurred. The printed book bears (ISBN 0-942487-01-X).

See also

• Blast shelter
• Bug Out Bag
• Cresson Kearny
• Fallout shelter
• Kearny Fallout Meter
• Kearny Air Pump
• Nuclear bombs and health
• Potassium iodide
• Survivalism
• Duck and Cover
• Protect and Survive, a British booklet advising on how to survive a nuclear war.

External links

• Online version of NWSS at Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine's homepage
• Another online version of NWSS
• Free PDF download of Nuclear War Survival Skills
• Red Cross preparations recommendations
• A Mother Thinks about Nuclear Survival, an editorial written by Jenny Hatch which references Cresson Kearny's Book
• Video Tour of Jenny Hatchs Storage Room with 72 Hour Kits Explained
• Survivalist website with vast information regarding many crisis scenarios, including nuclear war