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Available Wind Data Sources And How to Use Them
An NOAA map showing average wind speeds for the month of May. This is the third part of a three-part article series on using wind data to evaluate the risk of nuclear fallout at your retreat location....
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The Two Types of Wind Effects to Consider
Part of a diagram explaining how jetstream winds are formed (full size here). This is the second part of a three-part article series on using wind data to evaluate the risk of nuclear fallout at your...
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Using Wind Data to Estimate Fallout Risk
People observing the nearby Small Boy test in the NV desert, 1962. This is the first part of a three-part article that looks at how to calculate the potential impact on your retreat location of the...
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Surviving the Secondary and Longer Term Effects of a Nuclear Explosion
A Civil Defense map from 1990 showing likely fallout patterns after a moderate intensity nuclear war. This is the second part of a two-part article about how close you can be to a nuclear explosion and...
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How Close Can You Be to Survive a Nuclear Bomb Blast?
The effects of the bomb at Hiroshima were greatly magnified by the flimsy construction methods used in the city. The few buildings constructed to western standards proved comparatively robust. This is...
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How Long Do You Wait For Stragglers to Reach Your Shelter?
A nice shelter entrance, designed so blast waves will be partially deflected off the door. So you have invested in a blast/radiation shelter, and done all the necessary things to stock it and prepare...
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A Life And Death Decision – Rushing to Your Shelter
This shelter/bunker has easy access and would allow people to quickly make their way to safety. If you have a shelter and are unfortunately in a region where there’s a danger of being caught by the...
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How to Receive Emergency Alert System Messages
The Midland WR300 and the WR-120B are excellent and affordable SAME equipped NWR EAS compatible radios. We’ve written before about the need to urgently make your way to your shelter if you receive a...
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The World As We Know It Almost Ended in September 1983
A Topol-M ICBM parading through Moscow’s Red Square. Chances are you can come up with a long list of things that might go wrong so as to cause TEOTWAWKI. But do you have ‘computer mistake’ on your...
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Nuclear Winter Projection Probably Flawed, But Valuable Prepper Lessons Still...
The Tsar Bomba’s 35 mile high mushroom cloud, as seen from 100 miles away. An interesting new study predicts that a limited nuclear exchange between warring powers would result in a ‘nuclear winter’...
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