Reception
It was introduced in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (Vol 39, 1983) as perhaps the "most substantial" book on surviving nuclear war, comparable to Life After Doomsday: A Survivalist Guide to Nuclear War and Other Major Disasters by Bruce D. Clayton, which itself praised and borrowed from Nuclear War Survival Skills. It was noted that NWSS includes information such as "elaborate diagrams for building shelter; testing for radiation with homemade meters; providing for ventilation; filtration of water and sanitation," but it was claimed that NWSS (and three similar books reviewed) dealt with only short-term survival, and had "overlooked" "longer-term precautions." Kearny's "assumptions and political attitudes" were assumed to be: "the government is virtually incapable of acting intelligently" and "Will civilization survive nuclear war? ... Kearny says yes."
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Famous quotes containing the word reception:
“To the United States the Third World often takes the form of a black woman who has been made pregnant in a moment of passion and who shows up one day in the reception room on the forty-ninth floor threatening to make a scene. The lawyers pay the woman off; sometimes uniformed guards accompany her to the elevators.”
—Lewis H. Lapham (b. 1935)
“He’s leaving Germany by special request of the Nazi government. First he sends a dispatch about Danzig and how 10,000 German tourists are pouring into the city every day with butterfly nets in their hands and submachine guns in their knapsacks. They warn him right then. What does he do next? Goes to a reception at von Ribbentropf’s and keeps yelling for gefilte fish!”
—Billy Wilder (b. 1906)
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