Survival Master Guide Be ready · Stay calm

Civil-defence field guide

Nuclear event survival,
made understandable.

Almost no one realises the first sixty seconds are the ones that decide who survives. This guide — built fresh on current official guidance and verified blast science — turns that minute, and the hours and weeks that follow, into clear actions you can actually take.

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Built on FEMA · CDC · WHO · IAEA · Glasstone & Dolan
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28 sections · A4 print-ready

The first minute

Survival is decided in the first 60 seconds

Most guides open with supplies and checklists. Real events open with a flash on the horizon — and what you do in the next sixty seconds matters more than anything you packed. Hardly anyone knows the right moves in that minute; this guide makes sure you do.

  1. 0 secThe flashDon't look at it. Drop low and put something solid between you and the light.
  2. ~10–30 secBlast waveStay down, head covered, away from windows until it has fully passed.
  3. < 60 secGet insideMove fast to the strongest core you can reach — a basement or the centre of a solid building.
  4. ThenStay insideStay put and stay tuned. Fallout can begin arriving within minutes.

The guide

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Nuclear Event Survival
Master Guide

A complete, plain-English manual for surviving a nuclear event — from the flash and blast to fallout, sheltering, decontamination and the long road back. Written to be read calmly now and used decisively later, with diagrams, quick-reference tables and worked scenarios throughout.

Every purchase includes the printable Quick-Reference Pocket Guide — the life-saving essentials, medication doses and packing list condensed to carry — alongside the full 75-page guide, delivered together in one download.

  • Blast & EMP timeline by distance
  • Fallout plume & wind direction
  • Sheltering by protection factor
  • Water, air & food safety
  • Using a Geiger counter
  • Decontamination & medical care
  • A pre-event supplies checklist
  • Eight reference attack scenarios
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Inside the guide

Everything in one calm, ordered manual

No fear-mongering, no filler. Just the decisions that matter, in the order you'll need them.

The first 10 minutes

Get inside, stay inside, stay tuned — the three rules, plus exactly where in a building to shelter.

The 7-10 rule

How fallout radiation falls away over time — and what that means for when it's safe to move.

Protection-factor shelter

A ladder of real-world shelters by how much radiation they block — from a car to a basement core.

Eight worked scenarios

Real attack situations played out step by step — yield, distance, wind and what survival looks like.

Iodine & medical

When potassium iodide helps (and when it doesn't), dosing by age, and treating burns and radiation injury.

Fallout & the wind

Read the wind, map where fallout drifts, and know how long to wait before it's safe to move.

Water, air & food

Make water safe (including from fallout), keep the air breathable in a sealed room, and judge what's safe to eat.

Comms & evacuation

Stay informed when the networks fail, and know the signals for when to shelter versus when to move.

Print-ready A4

The paid PDF is laid out for A4 so you can print it, keep it in your kit, and use it with no power or signal.

Why this guide

Detail most survival guides leave out

There's no shortage of survival content online. Very little of it is current, technical, or specific enough to actually act on. This is.

Vastly newer

Written against today's FEMA, CDC, WHO and IAEA guidance — not the recycled Cold-War leaflets most guides still lean on. Where the science has moved on, this guide already has.

Verified & technical

Real numbers, not vibes: protection factors, dose-rate decay (the 7-10 rule), iodine dosing by age, Geiger-counter readings and sealed-room air times — cross-checked against primary sources like Glasstone & Dolan.

Not found elsewhere

Eight fully worked attack scenarios, fallout-plume mapping by wind direction, and step-by-step decontamination — depth a typical prep checklist simply doesn't go to.

Two ways to use it

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The full guide is free to read online. Buy the PDF when you want a copy that works offline — and on paper.

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Full guide + pocket guide

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A copy that works when the grid doesn't.

  • The full 75-page guide (PDF)
  • Quick-reference pocket guide included
  • Print it for your emergency kit
  • Keep it offline, forever
  • Secure one-time download link
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Free interactive tool

See the blast for your own distance

Reading about blast rings is one thing — seeing them is another. The blast-sequence simulator lets you set a weapon yield and a distance, then watch the effects unfold second by second: the fireball, the air-blast overpressure, the thermal flash, and the radiation that follows. It's the fastest way to grasp what “get inside, now” really means where you live and work.

  • Adjustable yield, distance and conditions
  • Fireball, blast, thermal and fallout — ring by ring
  • A second-by-second timeline of the first moments
  • Free, no sign-up, runs entirely in your browser
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More guides are on the way

We're building the same calm, field-tested treatment for the emergencies most likely to affect ordinary households.

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Nuclear Event Survival

The full master guide — read free or get the PDF for £5.

In preparation

Power-Grid Failure

Staying warm, fed and informed through an extended blackout.

In preparation

Pandemic & Isolation

Sheltering, supplies and household care during an outbreak.

Questions

Good to know

Is the guide really free to read?

Yes. The complete guide is free to read online, one page at a time. You only pay if you want the downloadable, printable PDF to keep and use offline.

What do I get for £5?

Two PDFs in one download: the complete 75-page guide and the quick-reference pocket guide (the carry-it-with-you essentials, including the medication doses and packing list). After payment you get a private one-time download link to the ZIP — save it and print whichever you need for your emergency kit. Your £5 goes directly towards keeping these updated and funding the development of the next guide.

How current and reliable is the information?

Every figure and procedure was researched, compiled and validated over three years against primary sources — including FEMA, the CDC, the WHO, the IAEA and Glasstone & Dolan — and the guide is kept up to date as that guidance changes.

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Is this medical or official advice?

No. It's an educational guide that summarises publicly available guidance from sources such as FEMA, the CDC, the WHO and the IAEA. In a real emergency, always follow the instructions of your local authorities.