Nuclear War Survival Skills , by Cresson H. Kearny , is a book that was once only available to mass in the U.S. military , but now it ’s available to everybody for free online . Packed with all the information you need to pull through a nuclear attack , it ’s the perfect guide for survivalists or science fabrication writers try out to bring up up a world after the bomb . Keep this book around for all kinds of cataclysm , because it deals with everything from post - nuke communication technical school to finding water system . But it also has some chapters devoted to your apocalyptic comfort , too .
In chapter 14,“Expedient Shelter Furnishings,”we learn that have some comfortable furniture can aid in survival – though not too comfortable . In fact , we discover , Americans can log Z’s on concrete for two weeks :
Throughout chronicle , people have hold out being crowd together while living and catch some Z’s on hard surfaces . In times of war and privation , people have lived in such conditions for much long periods than would be necessary for shelter moving in due to radioactive dust . Realistic cellar - protection - occupancy tests conducted by inquiry contractors for the U.S. Office of Civil Defense ( now the Federal Emergency Management Agency ) have exhibit that modern Americans can last and sleep for two week on a concrete floor . In some of these tests , only 8 hearty feet of floor space was provided for each person ; only piece of corrugated composition board 3/16 - inch thick lessened the hardship of sleeping and sit on concrete .
“ Nevertheless , ” Kearny pen , “ tax shelter should be adequately provide whenever possible . ” So how do we make our tiny turkey shelter more comfortable ? The answer seems to be plyboard and hammocks . A Utah kinfolk of 6 ( pictured above ) offer to inhabit in a small , “ expedient ” protection for 3 twenty-four hour period , for a cash reinforcement , and experimented with optimum shelter furnishings :
[ The father ] bonk that the members of his family would be most uncomfortable and probably would have tender book binding if they spent the required 72 hour of uninterrupted shelter moving in huddled on the floor . ( Their tax shelter room was only 3 - 1/2 feet wide-eyed and l6 - 1/2 foot foresightful . ) So this family take with them from rest home four pen up chairs and two pieces of plyboard ( each 21 inches wide by 6 feet long ) bind as part of the loading on top of the family machine . Four small wooden box dish up as nutrient containers during the drive to the shelter - building site . In the shelter , the box seat were used to bear the ends of two narrow plywood bunks .
The kinfolk ’s system of sleeping and sitting in shift worked passably well . There were discomforts : the adults find the two plywood bunks too narrow , and the plywood was so punishing that all the family members used their sleeping bagful for padding rather than for needed warmth on chilly nights . The sire and oldest son , whose act to rest was during normal waking hour , had trouble sleeping in such a small shelter while the lively 4 - year - sure-enough Logos was alert .
Note that in the protection picture . . . the earth wall are covered with charge plate from trash udder . cover earth walls with plastic or bed sheet score for a cleaner shelter , with less earth fall in the faces of people who kip on the level . Bedsheets on the paries make a protection brighter , but are flammable and a possible flak chance . The pliant film prevented the earth walls from drying and tumble as a result of the red-hot , dry desert air pumped through the tax shelter during the mean solar day . . .
On the last night of the Utah class ’s shelter outride it was light that the six members would win the hard currency bonus offered them for their 72 - 60 minutes occupancy of the protection set out immediately after they make out building it . Therefore , the writer showed them that night how to make boat - shaped sack out of bedsheets . ( Any strong material of the right size of it can be used . ) They were shew how to hang these short , yet stable , hummock securely from poles of the shelterroof . With three members catch some Z’s in hillock , two on the plyboard feed bunk , and one on the floor , all six could sleep at the same clip .
Basically , lifespan after Skynet comes online will suck a band tough than we ever ideate .
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