Nuclear, Biological, & Chemical Warfare- Survival Skills, Pt. II

various websites | 10-01-01 | backhoe

[backhoe]

Here is a collection of links to information you need about Nuclear, Biological & Chemical Warfare- ABC to us oldtimers.

This second thread refines & extracts more links and information you may need. Get it beforehand!

Chances of survival are increased by knowledge and understanding of the capabilities and limitations of each class of weapons.

It is my hope that those of you who have further knowledge, or links, regarding this will add to it-- and pass it along the 'net.

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Couple of Good Nuclear War Survival Primers...

Couple of Good Nuclear War Survival Primers...

You Will Survive Doomsday (Eye-Opening Myth Buster!)

11 Steps to Nuclear War Survival (From Canadian version of FEMA)

Nuclear War Survival Skills (280 pg 'how-to' book on-line!)

Trans-Pacific Fallout (Don't be caught off-guard by these ill winds!)

Nuclear War Unthinkable? (Russian & Chinese Preps!)

...and...

Bruce Beach's Nuclear Survival Ark II Site

This last was recently updated and also includes FEMA Nuclear Weapon Target Maps by state along with survival info and groups specific for each! Enjoy!

Shane Connor, author of...
Potassium Iodide Anti-Radiation Pill FAQ

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Chemical and Biological Weapons Resources

- Guidelines for Responding to a Chemical Weapons Incident (Domestic Preparedness Program, USASBCCOM, March 2001)

- Fact Sheets on Biological Agents (Center for Civilian Biodefense Studies, The Johns Hopkins University)

- Harvard Sussex Program on CBW Armament and Arms Limitation (HSP)

- Joint SIPRI-Bradford Chemical and Biological Warfare Project

- Chemical and Biological Defense Information Analysis Center (CBIAC)

- Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS): United States Response to CBW Terrorism and Domestic Preparedness

- Christopher F. Chyba, "Biological Terrorism, Emerging Diseases, and National Security" (Project on World Security, Rockefeller Brothers Fund)

- American Medical Association (AMA): Medicine's Role in Responding to Terrorism

- Chemical and Biological Terrorism: Research and Development to Improve Civilian Medical Response

- Textbook of Military Medicine: Medical Aspects of Chemical and Biological Warfare

- Medical Management of Biological Casualties Handbook

- Medical Management of Chemical Casualties Handbook

- The Medical NBC Battlebook, U.S. Army Center for Health Promotion and Preventive Medicine (USACHPPM), Tech Guide 244, May 1999.

- All the Virology on the WWW

- Mitretek Systems: Background on Biological Warfare, Background on Chemical Warfare

- PhRMA Scientific and Regulatory Affairs: Biological & Chemical Weapons

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1) Go to your area Boy Scout or Girl Scout Council shop to find copies of the Manuals.

2) Making the Best of Basics: Family Preparedness Handbook by James Talmadge Stevens

3) U.S. Army Survival Manual by the Dept. of Defense

4) Ranger Handbook by U.S. Army Infantry School

5) SAS Survival Guide by John Wiseman

6) SAS Survival Handbook by John Wiseman

7) The Complete Book of Survival : How to Protect Yourself Against Revolution, Riots, Hurricanes, Famines and Other Natural and Man-Made Disasters by Rainer Stahlberg

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Army Field manuals

A Civil Defense Manual - How To Protect Your family - WARNING: 32 pages long.

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Anthrax Q & A

Smallpox Threat Small But Worrisome

Smallpox: An Attack Scenario

Botulism Fact sheet link

CDC Answers About Anthrax

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www.ReadyMadeResources.com

Good stuff Maynard

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-Index of Nuke articles--

-Index of Chemical Warfare/weapons articles--

-Index of Bioterrorism articles--

-Index of Terrorism articles--

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[backhoe]

FWIW---

Disposable Body Bags and Protective Clothing

[backhoe]

More on gas masks:

Re: expiration date for the filters on the mask.

The filters have a seal on them. As long as the seal is unbroken they'll last decades at least. If it's your mask, the seal can be broken and ya'll can practice fitting and breathing in fresh air w/o loss of capacity. Just put the cap on tight when you're done.

The active component in the mask is activated carbon. If you're handy with taking things apart and putting them back together, or improvising...activated carbon is regenerated by boiling in water for say ~30 min for most things.

[backhoe]

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Nuclear Blast Mapper

[backhoe]

Cross-linking:

Unclassified 10/31: CIA Chemical, Biological, Radiological Incident Handbook

[backhoe]

Cross-linking to:

Advice on Chemical/Biological/Nuclear Attacks

[Poohbah]

First step in surviving a nuclear war: try not to be too close to Ground Zero...

[backhoe]

There was an old British Army Field manual whose advice to surviving the Atom Bomb was,

"Don't be there when it goes off..."

[Poohbah]

Sage advice...

[FUSSBALL]

hahahahaha.....THANK YOU. Thank you for letting some of us newbies catch up with knowledge.

[backhoe]

Thank you for taking the time to look; I hope you'll copy, forward, email, or otherwise "pass along" a link to this to other people & forums.

Since you are new, I'll put you at the top of my ping list for the morning update of these ( to be posted in a few hours )--

DUBOB 9-- even *more* tales from the Dark Underbelly of the Beast.....

[backhoe]

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Thinking Ahead: Should Smallpox Become Reality, What Do We Do?

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

My child and I are now on doxycycline - she had the beginning symptoms of inhalation and I have had symptoms of the intestional version. Lucky for us that I have ties into another health care worker who made the prescription. I think the spores might have come into our home on our mortgage statements from NJ (our home and all our rental properties), but the area public health care agency has told health care providers that no anthrax tests should be run unless the authorities are called in and anthrax testing is done and confirmed.

[backhoe]

she had the beginning symptoms of inhalation and I have had symptoms of the intestional version

Good God! Let us know how you both are doing!

I assume it's anthrax? It's nasty stuff, but treatable, and they are better now with managing some of the side-effects.

It seems to me your story would qualify for a post in breaking news!

[backhoe]

Homegrown Vaccines

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

The problem is, with the idiotic health dept. warning, no health care providers around here are taking this anthrax-spreading problem seriously. I think they think any suspicious mail will look like the envelopes sent to Daschle et al. The problem, as I see it, is that mail is a good fomite, and yes, our mortgage statements, not to mention a few catalogs or two, all come out of NJ! And bloody diarrhea isn't exactly, well, like the normal, flu-like output! :-/

[Don Myers]

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[backhoe]

I'll keep that "catalogs from NJ" in mind- we had a big fall-off in such mailings for about a week; they have resumed.

Bloody diarrhea is indeed a symptom to be alarmed about, especially in the young or very old- fluid loss & loss of blood volume... short of starting an IV drip, about all you can do at home is drink isotonic fluids ( Gatoraide ) and raise hell with your Doc. If it doesn't abate, head for the nearest Emergency Room. A good "in the field" indicator of how well the antibiotic is working is that within a few hours or a day of starting it, you "are amazed at how bad you felt a few hours ago."

Keep us advised- and consider posting your story. You don't have to be Hemingway to tell Who, What, When, Where, & Why- just lay the story out as it happened.

JR

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

Bloody diarrhea is indeed a symptom to be alarmed about, especially in the young or very old- fluid loss & loss of blood volume.

No fooling. Especially when I read about what can happen with intestinal anthrax via the New England Journal of Medicine and other places. Seems this type isn't even on the radar screen here because they think it can only be transmitted by eating food. I think in my case I got the spores through my nose, but swallowed them down into my stomach right away.

[backhoe]

Your theory makes sense- when I ran the sewage plant, the rule was "keep your hands below your collar" to avoid spreading any pathogens to eyes, nose, or mouth.

Here's a little more on smallpox:

Cause of death: liberalism

[backhoe]

NDX-

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