Nuclear Attack Survival Kits provide essential items designed to withstand radiation and other hazards caused by nuclear explosions. Items include food, water, and communication tools. bugout bags
In an emergency nuclear situation, staying indoors and staying tuned in are of the utmost importance. This includes taking shelter in public shelters as well as staying away from windows to minimize exposure to blast debris and radiation.
1. Water
Water is one of the necessities in an emergency or disaster scenario, making up one-fifth of the daily calorie needs of adults. Quality can also vary significantly during a disaster or radiological incident.
An explosion of nuclear war can produce intense light and heat, damaging pressure waves, and widespread radiation contamination that spreads for miles around. This radiation, commonly referred to as fallout, can be caught up into the atmosphere and carried by winds; then rain down on other locations as fallout falls back down onto Earth. Fallout can remain hazardous even weeks later after its initial impact.
To protect yourself from radiation, you must have access to adequate shelter, food, water supplies, an NBC filter radio with tone alerts, and extra batteries in your survival kit. Also, consider including dust masks, plastic sheeting, duct tape as sheltering tools, military-grade gas masks complete with compatible NBC filters, and potassium iodide tablets in this arsenal of supplies.
2. Food
As soon as the word ‘nuclear’ enters our minds, images of mushroom clouds come to mind, but even if you aren’t directly affected by an actual blast site, radiation will still impact you and everything nearby. When bombs explode, radioactive dirt known as fallout disperses miles away from them and spreads, contaminating everything along its route.
Staying indoors until it passes is the key to surviving any fallout, then stocking up on food, water, and other supplies as soon as it does.
Ideal preparation should include having enough nonperishable food and water supplies for each person for three days of nonstop consumption and two weeks’ supply of fresh drinking water per person. You will also require personal documents like birth certificates and ID cards in case of rationing begins after an attack has taken place.
Potassium iodide tablets are also essential, providing your thyroid gland with essential iodine that prevents it from absorbing radiation that could otherwise lead to cancer and other diseases. Be sure to stock up at your drugstore since these items are typically not found at supermarkets.
3. Shelter
Immediately upon being warned of an impending nuclear explosion, take shelter. Shockwaves, searing flashes of light, incendiary fireballs, and radiation are deadly, but so too is fallout: radioactive particles that fall like snow from the atmosphere into our lives and kill us all.
A sturdy concrete building provides the best protection from falling debris and radioactive contamination. To find one with a basement that features brick or reinforced concrete walls – though a subway or parking garage may also work as they allow people to take cover close to the ground as soon as they step inside – and remain there until authorities instruct you otherwise.
Before making your way into the shelter, be sure to have emergency supplies prepared. A fully stocked go-bag – like those recommended by the Federal Emergency Management Agency for American families – would be an ideal way to train. Your kit should include enough water for several days’ supply, food supplies, battery or hand crank radio, and any other items necessary in an emergency. Various survivalist and prepper websites list what items will help ensure survival from nuclear attack or any other catastrophe; do some research online now.
4. First Aid
First aid supplies are an integral component of any survival kit, and your nuclear attack survival kit should be no exception. Be sure to include first aid kits, bandages, and swabs along with protection pills like potassium iodide as part of their essential contents.
Nuclear explosions can release harmful radioisotopes into the environment in the form of “fallout,” which spreads as radioisotope particles that fall near where they originated and light debris that lingers long after. To protect yourself against radiation exposure, it is wise to take refuge within an unbreakable building as soon as possible and remain there until officials indicate it’s safe to return outdoors.
As you create a nuclear attack survival kit for your family, make sure it satisfies their unique needs. Take into account each person’s medical conditions or allergies, as well as planning for pets. Also important is having multiple ways of receiving emergency alerts so that you’ll know quickly what’s happening and can prepare quickly – including hand-crank radios with extra batteries!
5. Communication
An attack by nuclear bombs is an unnerving prospect that conjures images of mushroom clouds, but it’s essential to keep in mind that not every nuclear strike will look alike; size and effects on radiation levels vary between bombings.
Communication plans are essential when facing a nuclear disaster, including how you will meet up afterward and where each family member should go during an emergency. Make sure the plan is written down and distributed to all family members.
Find out if there are shelters available to the public in your community, ideally made of concrete or brick and ideally subterranean. Such shelters may protect from radiation.
In case you’re unable to evacuate, listening to local radio can provide official instructions and information. Make sure you have access to battery-powered or hand-crank emergency radios as well as two-way (walkie-talkies) radios.
