Nuclear War Survival Skills
Lifesaving Nuclear Facts and Self-Help Instructions
$29.12
- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
28 March 2016
Summary
A 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), 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 meticulo…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781634502979 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1634502973 |
| Author: | Cresson H. Kearny, Edward Teller, Don Mann, Eugene P. Wigner |
| Publisher: | Skyhorse Publishing |
| Imprint: | Skyhorse Publishing |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 28 March 2016 |
| Weight: | 399g |
| Dimensions: | 25mm x 156mm x 229mm |
Cresson H. Kearny
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.
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