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| Life After Doomsday | 
 enlarge | Author: Bruce Clayton
Publisher: Paladin Press
Category: Book
List Price: $29.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  11 reviews
Sales Rank: 205728
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1st
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 202
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 10.9 x 8.4 x 0.5
ISBN: 0873641752
Dewey Decimal Number: 613.69
EAN: 9780873641753
ASIN: 0873641752
Publication Date: May 1992
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Product Description
This unique manual shows you how to survive a nuclear nightmare by providing an exhaustive investigation of survival strategies and of the problems that will face those who survive. The author outlines step-by-step procedures for preparing and defending shelters, storing food, treating illnesses and injuries and understanding the psychology of survival. With its dozens of useful charts, lists, drawings and photos, this book also serves as an excellent reference on surviving any major disaster.
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 Good product. June 26, 2008
Interesting read, lots of information, a little dated though, written in 1981 and is more focused on nuclear bombs going off rather than anything else, not too bad.
 Life After Doomsday December 23, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This is one of the best books on surviving disasters. The information is very well written, and covers all aspects of staying alive, and self sufficient in different scenarios. I enjoyed reading this book for its entertainment, and informative qualities.
If you are concerned about the possibility of any type of malfeasance befalling you and your loved ones this is the one of the first books you should read. It will give you a good background on how to deal with many issues you need to cover in order to survive: food & storage, selecting seeds and storage, planting, decontamination of people, food, & water. Security in the home, while in transit, defense of a fixed position, and things people often forget, like morale and fire safety, protecting communication devices from EMP.
The book even contains instructions on building air filters and pumps, and even Geiger Counters and Dose meters from house hold items. A must have for people concerned about the turbulent nature of the world today, or intellectuals who in joy learning for learning sake, this book is a must have for any collection!
How to Prepare for the Realities of Nuclear Conflict June 24, 2006
13 out of 30 found this review helpful
Bruce Clayton's book was written during 1979 not too many years after Nixon frightened us with his threat - "I can go in to my office and pick up the telephone and in twenty-five minutes 70 million people will be dead"p15. Clayton's book was published in 1980 during the end of Carter's Presidency. Ronald Reagan's lot had been stirring up American fears of the "Red Scare", while Ed Clark's message of liberty was smothered by Demopublican independent John Andersen whose presidential campaign preserved the Demopublican one-party system. I purchased this book in 1980 while stationed on Shemya Island, where we watched the Soviets decay from their own corruption. It was difficult for me to take Clayton's fears on nuclear conflict seriously because the Soviets were technologically a joke!
Having said that, this was a well-written book IF there ever was to be a global nuclear conflict. And with Adolf Bush today playing lapdog to his British bosses, it is not beyond possibility that the Benedict Arnold will lob a few "limited" nuclear warheads around the globe on behalf of American-powered British empire. Clayton's book will be useful to those starving thirdworlders unfortunate to live atop black gold (oil) or opium fields. Clayton's survival information could help an Afghan (who don't even have a hot-air balloon let alone an air force!) to survive British or American nuclear strikes.
Clayton is an ecologist whose PhD research took him to Montana. He wrote "Since I was doing field research in an area liberally sprinkled with Minuteman missile silos, it was not long before my interests expanded to include the ecological consequences of a full scale thermonuclear war"(pix). He pooh-poohs the idea that nuclear conflict will destroy the earth 300 times over; in fact, he says this is all fantasy! There WILL be survivors, whether they intended to survive or not. And he believes that it is best to prepare for survival ("it is almost unavoidable"px) rather than muddle through it like the bookish bank teller (played by Burgess Meredith) in The Twilight Zone episode "Time Enough At Last" (1959).
Clayton's book contains 8 chapters with a preface and 7 appendices. The chapters are "It's a Disaster", "Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Nuclear War", "To Flee or Not to Flee", "Home Sweet Hole", "A Loaf of Bread, A Jug of Wine, and Chow", "Nobody Makes Housecalls Anymore", "To Have and To Hold", and "Wake Me When It's Over". The appendices are "Nuclear Target Areas Within the United States", "Fallout Pattern Data", "Expedient Shelter Construction", "The Kearny Air Pump", "Supplementary Medical Information", "Special Radiological Information", and "The Kearny Fallout meter".
Clayton's book reveals that nuclear conflict is possible because survival is unavoidable - that alone is incentive enough to read this book. The turncoats in Washington are itching to put Clayton's hypothesis to the test.
 A Classic! Still essential reading in the post Cold War era July 6, 2004
7 out of 9 found this review helpful
Bruce Clayton's cold war vintage survival classic, Life After Doomsday, still makes worthwhile reading in the age of terrorist threats, North Korean ballistic missiles, Iranian nukes, and germ warfare. While some of the specific information, such as the location of counterforce targets (US missile and bomber bases)is out-dated, much of the insight remains valid. For the generation born after 1980, the book provides absolutely priceless perspective on the meaning of "The Cold War" and the risks faced by civilian and military alike during that era. The prospect of global nuclear war, a constant in the Reagan years, puts today's small scale terrorist threats into an entirely different perspective. In fact Clayton remains one of the most concise, intelligent, and useful sources for any individual, family or group contemplating the dangers of contemporary life. It is a shame that Dr. Clayton, to date, has not applied his energy, intellect and unique insight to updating his work with information addressing the changes in the threat/probabilities along with the advances in technology useful in survival situations. It has been almost 25 years, the world has changed dramatically and we have had some new experiences from which to draw lessons. Come on Dr. Clayton, how about it! Until the 2nd edition is published, this is still about the best general source for contemporary survival advice available.
Yeah Right.... April 13, 2004
8 out of 32 found this review helpful
"The information in this book is suited for no other disasters than a minimal nuclear accident. The information is old., dated and poor."......As my Dad used to say, "Horse Hockey." This is just another person who has let the government "experts" convince him that since no one can survive a nuclear war, you should not try. The fact is, that many experts believe that surviving is possible. But on the bright side, since so many numbnuts will not even try, there will not be so many people driving slow in the left lane in the future.
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