You Can Survive the Atomic Bomb!

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How to Survive an Atomic BombHow to Survive an Atomic Bomb
Gerstell
1950

My generation was taught to hide under our school desk in order to dodge “the Bomb”.  Every school kid practiced civil defense drills, just like a fire drill. Evidently your average school desk is resistant to atomic rays.

This book contains lots of helpful advice, from wearing a hat to prevent radiation to calculating the body count from the bomb’s epicenter. Even with some grisly death counts, the author assures us that “authorities” will still be in charge and that nuclear war is survivable. So pack your Geiger counter and hat so you can be ready when “the big one” comes.

Hiding under my desk,

Mary

 

How to Survive an Atomic Bomb

Percentages of bomb casualties

Where to go in the basement

car on the street

If it happens

furrow in plowed field

Civil defense groups