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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