Excellent. Thank you for putting this together!

Ok so I am a nuclear professional 43 years and still working. My profession has primarily been in radiation protection. All things radiation protection. Situations and conditions of my experiences include processing nuclear weapon source materials. And spent nuclear fuels from breeding reactors to commercial. All these positions deal with far higher dose than the aftermath of a detonation. I say this because you would be dead from the nuclear event otherwise. The only 2 events of record in Japan do not represent today's nuclear weapons. Health Physics is the science of radiation protection. A field born out of WWII and nuclear science. We do know what exposure does to all parts of the human body and unborn. We have training for wearing protective clothing and what is needed. Time , distance and shielding isn't well explained. The kinds of modern nuclear weapons are more threatening and bring 6 physical threats. I have long realized the public is unprepared. We abandoned civil defense training and nothing is updated.

Don’t forget that a basement can flood very quickly if the sump pump is not working due to loss of power. So either prepare with a battery back up or some sort of manual pump to remove water in the event of heavy rains. Thanks for the video guys.

I have degrees in chemistry and biology, and I am new to prepping. This video was the MOST informative I have found on KZfaq! Thank you for Mr. Whimpey taking the time to explain everything.

This video is, as usual, a timely reminder. I was able to find potassium iodide (KI) in a 2 bottle set at WalMart, oddly enough, for a not-crazy price. I expect to see a small nuclear "solution" used in the Ukraine conflict any day now. I continue to top off the preps as efficiently as possible.

A few quick notes about taking iodine (potassium iodide, KI for short) against radiation poisoning: -Do not "wing it" when it comes to dosage because KI will mess up your body if you don't know what you're doing. Age etc. affects dosage, and this is tricky because the dosages needed to combat radiation poisoning are huge, so there isn't as much margin for error as you might think. This isn't like your average supplement. -Do not take KI intended to combat radiation poisoning as a regular supplement or "just in case" because it is a different product from the iodine intended for use as a regular supplement. Only take it if the nukes really do start landing and take it only as instructed. The KI intended to combat radiation is about a thousand times stronger than the KI you find it multivitamins and vegan iodine products. The latter two are NOT fit for purpose (if your purpose is to combat radiation poisoning). -There are limits to who should use KI and how much it can help. It only protects the thyroid from radioactive iodine (I-131) and does not protect other parts of the body from other types of radiation. It's not some magic pill, so use it only as one of many ways to protect yourself and your family from radiation poisoning. -KI is usually recommended only for people under 40 years old as well as for women who are pregnant/breastfeeding. Doses recommended by the FDA depend on age, so make sure you check and double and triple check the correct dosage for each person under your care. -One last time and I cannot stress this enough: KI can seriously mess you up if taken incorrectly. If you are instructed to take KI, only use KI products that are approved for the intended purpose of combating radiation.

As an Ukrainian I just want to say, guys video like that are really important, it isn't just some jokes, we all must be prepared it can happen anytime...

This was very informative but unfotunately did nothing to change my plan of running towards the blast. I live on the east coast surrounded by 1st and 2nd strike targets. At least a couple of which are within ten miles. My wife and I along with our grown daughter have discussed this and all agree that even though we might possibly escape the blast and heat wave we would rather die quickly than go through a lingering painfull death a couple of months later of radiation poisoning. However, I wish the rest of you good luck and you are welcome to stop by my place and help yourselves to what ever supplies are left in the crushed and smoldering ruins of my home... .

Thank you; thank you so much for your literally 'provident' information! You guys are the best. I recommend you guys to anyone that will listen. Now I'll include Jay to the list!

A year later, I am rewatching this..... seriously.

great video!! thanks for sharing your wealth of knowledge with us... i have a concrete room in my basement, the one downfall is the wooden door leading to it!!! im working on ways to improve it!! i pray this event never happens but it is not looking good for the home team!!!

Thank you! I have been looking for this info! Appreciate it!!

A real terrific video, thank you Jonathan, Kylene and Jay. Thank you for that PDF link. Happy trails!

The information in this video is invaluable. Thank you for putting this together. Lots of good tips and tricks to help survive a nuclear war.

Thank you so much for this interview, practical perspective and resources to further education. God bless you.

I often think of how to quickly turn off the HVAC. Those noisy big things outside with the fan blades. Great video with an important action item - shielding to pile up at the basement walkout and windows. This is a long but much appreciated, informative video. Thank you.

Good start for collecting information and starting to prepare.

Excellent video. Thanks for all the info.

So GRATEFUL for this video !

I ordered your book and look forward to reading it... TY

Thank you so much for this video, God bless us all!

When I was a teenager in the 1960s, I took training in fallout shelter management, emergency medical care, radiation monitoring, etc. offered by our local Civil Defense agency. Classes were taught in a big fallout shelter in the sub-basement of our courthouse. It was stocked with everything imaginable - even a small infirmary. But in the intervening years, our government stopped preparing Americans for nuclear attack. Shelters were stripped of equipment and supplies and turned to other uses. I don't think most people would recognize the siren warning for such attacks (the warble is different from the tornado warning). I see no fallout shelter signs posted in my town. I live in the capitol of my state. The former Air Force base here was once a prime target because it had very long runways, so it still might be a target. There were many missile sites scattered across my state. I don't know which are still active, but assume some are. All that leads me to believe it is likely my city would be targeted. Frankly, like another person posted here, I don't think I'd want to survive in a shelter and then come out to face what was left of our world.

Love you guys and thanks for sharing your ideas !

Excellent video thank you

Fallout that is the size of sand or small gravel looks like little glass beads of weird irregular shape. It is basically melted glass, so it looks brown if from brown dirt, reddish if from red dirt. Fallout can later be in the form of tiny tiny invisible nanoparticles, so special air filters or masks are needed to keep from breathing nanoparticles into your lungs.

Excellent video!!

Thanks so much for sharing this information. In your follow up video, some questions that I'm left with are when to use iodide tablets or liquid and should I cover vents and try to create a sealed space in my home using sheathing and tape. I will look to see if these are addressed in the survival guide you provided, which I'm sure will be incredibly helpful. Thanks again so much for sharing it!

Thank you so much for this wonderful info!!!

Thank you so much for the survival education

Thank You for the Videos, this is my first time watching your Channel, from Johnstown, PA 😀🇺🇸

We learned about radiation early as some schools in our area closed during a nuclear accident from the Atomic Energy Commission in Idaho. I was in second grade. By third grade we were issued dog tags which was required for every school day due to the Cuban crisis. We had drills which put us sitting below our lockers with our heads down. It was a serious time but we we're young enough to think it was a fun break from classwork. If we forgot our dog tags our parents had to bring them to school. Shower twice if exposed and wash hair three times. A slight acid body wash such as orange juice is optimal if contaminated. My sister told me this after being trained to handle radiation accidents at the INEL as a paramedic. Don't use cream rinse in your hair as it hangs on to radiation. Applesauce was given to children exposed after Chernobyl I read. I would have enough for a month or two.

Interesting topic, and I hope the follow-up videos address the following logistics: - How could you constantly stay in the pictured 15 sq ft basement lean-to for 2 weeks or more? How would you go about everyday needs? Is it just about minimizing the time you go outside to cook on a gas stove, fuel a generator, or use a latrine? - If summer, and you have a generator to keep fridges/freezers running a few hours a day, do you just minimize your time outside and decontaminate each time you come back inside? - If winter, is there a point to turning off your furnace (assuming gas/power is available) or avoiding the draft of a wood stove, both of which pull in combustion air into the home from outside? Or do our houses leak so much air anyways to make those precautions worthless? Just wondering what day-to-day life would really look like for those few weeks :) Looking forward to your next videos.

Thank you for all the great info. But even more than the nuclear blast, I am more afraid of what survivors will do after society has collapsed following an all out nuclear war.

Thank you for the video..cheers from Italy 🇮🇹👋🏻

The blast wave lasts about 3 seconds. There is next maybe a second of calm, then comes three seconds (approximately) of vacuum sucking backwards the other way. The vacuum wave can be worse than the original blast wave, so buildings get pushed north then sucked south.

Excellent! Thank you.

Wanted to say thanks from the uk just purchased the updated version on Amazon. Will check out Acda, will check out how to build as that is the last thing to do on my prep many thanks

Thanks so much for the info. My biggest worry/wonder is what to do after? If I survive 2 weeks in my basement, what do I do then? Can I eat my food, animals that have been outside. What about the water?

Great information!

Excellent job!

I just remembered, after the Fukushima accident in Japan, radiation material was found in cows grazing in the USA, then in their milk. Man, it's a small world. ETA: this was in the mainland, not just Hawaii.

🙏🙏🙏Thank you for all the information. No one can guarantee survival but being prepared with the knowledge available is the wisest thing to do. The radiation sickness would be horrible and I'm anxious to do everything we can to minimize the exposure. We would hunker down in the basement and will get busy putting our stacks of storage bins along outside walls to help shield. Glad to know the stored canned goods will be safe to eat and will have our water filtering available. Can't have enough water but will store as much as possible down there. We have buckets and port-a-potty with bags for sanitation and will set up a washing, hand sanitizing station and have large wet wipes. Food will probably not be heated up because even indoor safe cooking methods won't be ideal in such a non-ventilated space. Have hand can openers etc for opening food. Actually, setting up the basement area as a campsite with everything you need ahead of time would be best. With food, water, utensils, sanitation items to use and store waste (garbage cans with tight lids for waste bags), sleeping bags/cots & pillows, blankets, cards, games, battery fans & lights and lots of batteries, transistor radio, mild air fresheners, coolers with frozen water bottles, meds, otc meds, first aid, etc. I guess your regular preps need to be stored where you could also hunker down for other events. Although not everything in basement in case of flooding. Wow, so much to think about but thinking ahead will be what helps us later. 🙏🙏🙏

I appreciate your time and effort in helping us prepare. I found him confusing though and just felt frustrated. Am I the only one?

How do you keep the dust out of your ventilation system, other than covering you AC unit with a tarp???

Thank you!

Thank you so timely.

Thanks for the great information

Thank you

Thank you so much for your wisdom on this subject. I have been trying to get ready for what I fear will be happening very soon and I am about to go crazy with it all. I live in a mobile home and I’m scared to death that I won’t have enough protection around my family with thin 2x4 exterior walls with paneling on the inside and thin aluminum outside. Is there anything that you can suggest for me that would help me prepare for what’s coming ?

this has been really helpful thia guy has a lot of knowledge

Swimming pools. Indoor, municipal pools, that is... 1. Usually have a roof high above them giving you distance 2. Source of drinking water 3. Often have basements where the equipment is that get you even further underneath Commercial buildings. Think creatively, anything more than one story should be an option, as long as you can bring food and water. 1. Malls 2. Some churches 3. Sporting good stores 4. Grocery stores. This has the added advantage of having food and water, assuming people aren't rushing it to loot it. 5. Jiffy lube type places. They usually have a tall roof and the pits in the floor give you more protection. 6. Any multi-story business is a candidate. Many people will not be thinking of these as shelter. Creative options: 1. Parking garages underneath buildings. This is a real hit/miss thing depending on how much air flow. Too much and that dust will get in. 2. Tunnels. Again, airflow and dust but if you are in a car and have no other option...

For combating cabin fever, get mood enhancing herbs and supplements. St. John's wart, chamomile, phosphatydle serine, melatonin and others. Have coloring supplies, books, whatever for keeping busy.

What about your home after you are clear to come out of sheilding. Will we be able to live in it again? Also what about cleaning your home afterward???

You can connect your drying machine vent with a squirrel cage coming from a car fan and driven by hand or from a bicycle. You would have air replacement and you could cook near the cage. To have fresh air in your basement bunker, use the attic (slow moving air) get pipes up-there and connect to the basement, use large air entry with screens (you don't want tons of flies), same fan car vent system to get the air coming down. The slow moving air will not pull air particles in the attic, big air entries will also reduce air speed and the risk of sucking particles. Use the deepest in the earth corner of your basement, reinforce the first level floor if you want to get dirt in the room above your bunker area.

If you have some home made cannings do the radiations get inside of those ? Are those are differently in danger depending of the place they are storded ? Thank you to the three of you for aĺl your help ! A question that I wanted to ask for à long time,concerning the home canning. If we lose the electicity will our canning jars will all break If it's about - 3o Celcius and if so what can we protect them ? Bye and God bless you

If there was a nuclear accident or terrorist attack... 1. Have duct tape on hand and seal all doors and windows. Roll of plastic for double up protection. 2. Maintain a supply of food and clean, sealed water. Purification system 3. Drink beer. half kidding and half not. The beer can flush bad things from your system. 4. If indoors, stay indoors. If outdoors, get indoors. If exposed, gently shower with soap, but be sure not to break the skin by rubbing too hard. 5. Maintain a supply of Potassium Iodide Tablets, which can protect your thyroid from radiation. If you don't have them, iodized table salt is better than nothing, but better to have the tablets. Last many years beyond the expiration date. Good to have if shtf.

Thank you.

Two years ago, my friend and I put together a Chinese-made portable trencher I purchased from a tool catalog. I tell people it's for digging out stumps and that's true. What I don't tell people is it also could be used to dig an "L"-shaped trench in my back yard, a slit trench, that when properly covered, may be used for fallout protection. Lord willing, my trencher won't be used for that purpose. For now, it just sits waiting for the next stump challenge. The biggest one we got out of neighbor's yard this summer was a white oak, with an age of 123.

Do you have any suggestions as to which radiation detection equipment (meters) would be best

I'm really surprised he didn't talk about air purification. This is vital!

I have been studying this for quite a few years now. The shielding from the gamma rays. Food water, dirt, books, bricks. . This world is going crazy now.

QUESTION: I live in windy place in a house with a fairly steeply-pitched roof. Won't radioactive fallout/ dust be likely to slide to the bottom edges (gutters) of my roof and/or blow right away in the wind? Won' this affect the level of protection I have in various parts of my home?

Exelent information!!

I was excited to watch this video, but was disappointed in the presentation. Mr. Whimpey obviously knew his stuff, but had a difficult time "dumbing it down" to where it was usable information for the average person. Kylene's take-aways were wonderful. Please make another video on this subject, but use your own words. Your tips and info are always doable and understandable. Thank you for your good work.

what kind of filter for water would you need??? there r some expensive ones out there but most people can't afford those

Thank you both for this extremely important information...

What is the black binder and where can I get one? I joined the civil defense site. Is it just a binder with all the journals in it? If so, I’m on it. Thanks for this video.

How does internal radiation differ from say the onslaught that cancer survivors go through when they get their scans on a quarterly or bi-annually or annual basis? Is this the same type of radiation? Our kids are not allowed to be near the radiated individual after scans for about 24 hours. So is that radiation still impacting that individual afterwards or is it eliminated via urine? IV for CT scan/imaging and also radioactive barium shakes are given.

Who would want to live in a post apocalyptic civilization?. Water alone you need 1 gallon a day, and if you build a sand bag shelter, for even 1 person would have to be huge? 4 sand bags deep all around and roof. I don't see many left after a year.

I need instruction on what would constitute adequate water filtration. Also gardening after fallout.

I suggest downloading and printing out Creason Kearny's Nuclear War Survival Skills (link in the description). This is a comprehensive writing from during the time of the cold war. it's very very good treatise.

You asked what our plans were: I purchased a nuclear hardened missile silo. As a life long student of survival, I highly recommend everyone get a copy of the Nuclear War Survival Skills book and a calibrated Victoreen 717 radiation detector. KI4U has calibrated ones, dosimeters and hard copies of the Nuclear War Survival Skills book. We have insurance for everything else. Why not disaster preparedness, too? That and my faith in God is my disaster insurance!

How much notice would we have of a nuclear attack or how much time will there be for us to get into place to shelter.

Hey guys.. liking your videos in this area. Can you look at wind patterns and fallout? Jay is awesome and his knowledge is becoming more important. Alaska and Hawaii included please ;)

Me and my kids lives within 4 miles of one of the major targets in the east coast, I think that’s it .At least we will go together.

Very good but he didn't discuss about iodine potassium, do you have a when it's time to take, it Answer.???

What about food and water in glass jars and bottle in celler underground? Would that be radiation free?

Concerning oxygen..how much would you need for a month in a 10x10 den? Would one need to store oxygen tanks? How much?

Some critical issues: 1. The area you are sheltering needs to near air tight as dust & contaminated smoke would cause a problem. Ideally shelters need to have an air-filtration system & maintain a positive air pressure inside to prevent dust & smoke from getting inside your shelter 2. Nuclear power plants are a major problem, as they will likely meltdown and release radioactive fallout for months, if not for years. After a nuclear war, there will be no one coming to contain & clean up a nuclear power plant meltdown. They continue to release fresh fissile materials for years, as well as long duration radioactive isotopes. 3. Issue is that rebuilding isn't going to be that easy. Most of the items we use come from thousands of miles away. I don't see how fuel will be readily available to support the food supply chain. Consider that farms use a lot of diesel to plant, harvest, process, & transport & it will be nearly impossible for AG equipment to get resupplies of consumables, & replacement parts. 4. We really don't know what biological weapons will be deployed, as these could be far deadlier that nuclear weapons. I recommend watching the 1983 move "Threads" (Available on YT) which does show how society will live on after a nuclear war. At best the first year, AG equipment would be able to do some of the farming worth by using locally available fuel & salvaging parts. But Once the local fuel is gone, It will likely be all manual labor. Food will need to be sourced locally since its unlikely there will be any means to transport food over long distances. A drought, early\late frosts could trigger a famine. Also not sure about seed production as most farms rely on non-heirloom seeds. Seeds reused from hybrid plants usually do not grow well and are less tolerate to the environment (ie bad weather, bugs, disease) & usually have a significant reduction in crop yields. Post Nuclear war Society would likely resemble medieval times with most of the population living in abject poverty and short lifespans (from rising cancer cause by contamination - no just radiation, but from chemical contamination from destroyed industrial plants and burning plastics from urban regions) as well as the loss of access to modern living standards: Clean water, high grade foods, access to healthcare, etc). My guess Post War, the median lifespan falls back to at least the 19th century level , which most people died before they reached 40.

blackout curtains. . put duct tape onfloor vents ,cover window a/ c units with thick plastic and secure with duct tape . make sure the weather stripping around exterior doors is good . . make.a safe room in your house . and access to your bathroom. . .

Simple instruction and good information ...CDC has put out good information, on what to do doing a nuclear emergency. Nuclear event if it is daylight most likely you will not be with family members, this is one event you may be on your own. I know people who carry nuclear kits in their cars to help them survive....here in Hawaii.

Question - What do we do to the windows to prevent effects of the dust? Can we use rain from outside, after an attack , to drink and bathe? Does a Berkey water system filter out the radiation ? How long Is it safe to drive a vehicle home after a radiation attack?

Ounce of prevention beats a pound of cure.. !

I just gave my daughter some more iosat yesterday because she moved recently and didn't know where they were when I asked her if she remembered what I told her to do if something like that happens. My family looks at me like I'm crazy when I give them stuff for these situations but I really don't care.😁

If the garden soil is contaminated with dust, do you need to wait a year or so before growing food in it? Longer? Thanks.

Thx

hope it does not come to this.. but i am ready if needed. great info Jones's

with regards to the initial blast, will the blast still hit your home that is over a hill? I'm 1 mile from the biggest airforce base in Australia.

I don't have any interior rooms, what about windows? Would they need to be covered, from the inside or outside, what if you didnt have enough time or the materials to cover them?

Probably should turn off the Furnace or A/C right away.

You would have to decontaminate everything after you come out of your shelter. This also includes the inside of your house, land (top soil) …gamma rays is my concern I’m in FL. No shelters or basements underground. I think the goal would be to survive but then find way to permanently leave to another location that was not exposed to nuclear fallout. Look at Ukraine some of those nuclear disaster areas still are not safe--30 years later.

Good video. Would like to ask 1.for those with a walkout basement that has windows or have no basement and sheltering in a ranch house,, do windows or doors need to be covered with plastic? 2. Should any vents on the roof be covered? 3. If we are stuck inside, and assuming grid is down, seems pretty hard to have energy to cook food indoors with windows/ doors having to remain shut so no ventilation. How do we handle this.? 3. SIimilarly, how do we get rid of waste?

I'm having trouble understanding the numbers...what is a fatal dose of rads in a 14 day period, and how do I calculate shielding when the suburban home has a 3' packed earth planter outside the basement wall, 3" of brick, 1/2" drywall walls + inside, buckets of food storage. How do we calculate 1/2 thickness when adding different materials together.

in Hawaii most people did not panic, what they did do was say goodbye to their families and a lot of them were outside looking at the sky, waiting for the bombs to fall. No one knew what to do. The worst panic was mothers the children were at school. We knew if it came from Korea, but they did not say where the bombs were coming from we had fifteen minutes before impact. It will be time although zero of us will ever forget it. We were asking neighbors what can you do?? everyone thought that there was zero you can do and you were dead. This is not true. Another great book is a history book by a doctor who lived through strike zero, it will tell you how these people who made it what it was like. Called Hiroshima Diary was written by a doctor and it was noted at that time they had no idea what hit them. Noted in Japan both bombs seventy-five percent of the people lived. Wind direction also makes difference in who gets hit and who does not.

I enjoyed watching your program on KZfaq just now. I'm a senior living in a seniors mobile home park. We have no basements or ug parking. Do you have any suggestions for us please?

great video! On you point of view what points are safest in US and all over the world? Thank you

This was so drawn out! Little information, and I could tell you were trying so hard to sum up the info he was trying to provide lol

Radiation diminishes as the inverse square of the distance. Blast decreases as the inverse cube of the distance. If you are twice as far away, the radiation is one quarter and the blast is one-eighth.

Good info, it might seem silly to many, but ignoring the threat doesn't seem practical or smart anymore.

Any good Books on what plants are edible vs not? and books on like medical uses for plants