Reddit reviews Nuclear War Survival Skills: Lifesaving Nuclear Facts and Self-Help Instructions

Just went over this with out group.

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Nuclear War Survival Skills book. Look up the author. He has seen and done some shit. If I remember he was also there for some testing of nukes. Was working with congress on civil defense before M.A.D. and eventually started petitioning them to start civil defense up again after the US stopped it. This book has a lot of what civilians can do in case of an attack. There are some parts of the book that describe what you can do in 30 minutes (basically what you can do before the fallout starts landing outside blast radius) to survive. Amazing book.

If there's an EMP, you can count on two things: you won't be reading any of the books you've saved on your electronic devices, and you'll be trying to survive in a post-nuclear nightmare. For this reason get a hard copy of Nuclear War Survival Skills by Cresson H. Kearny. It is the single best book written on the subject for the average citizen.

In addition I would get a hard copy of the LDS Preparedness Manual. You can skip past the first couple of dozen pages if you aren't interested in the religious stuff. After that is an encyclopedic resource for survival.

You can get both books on Amazon right now for about $40 total, and if you do it will vastly improve your survival library.

Besides basic survival skills, I would say farming would be a key skill to have. Both to feed yourself and to guarantee your usefulness after the fact. Also, any job skills that are hands-on, basic, pre-industrial would be most useful. Essentially, many places in a country attacked with nuclear weapons would be reduced very quickly to a pre-20th century life.

EDIT: This might be a book you would find useful--[Nuclear War Survival Skills] (https://www.amazon.com/Nuclear-War-Survival-Skills-Instructions/dp/1634502973/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1473952441&sr=8-1&keywords=survival+nuclear+war)