The bomb is not what kills most people. Thedust is.In a government model of a single small nuclearweapon in Washington, D.C., roughly 280,000 people>because they stayed outside. Run the same modelwith everyone indoors and 245,000 of thosecasualties never happen. No bunker. No suit. Wallsand a day of patience. After DEFCON 1 is the survival guide fora country that dismantled its civil defense programin 1994 and never told anyone. It opens with fourticking-clock scenarios, Russia, China, NorthKorea, and Iran, built from the real arsenals andreal doctrine of 2026. Then it hands you the plan.The fifteen-minute window and the tendecisions that decide whether you use it, on a pageyou can find with the lights outWhere the fallout goes: likely targets, prevailing winds, and how to read your own addresson the mapWhere shelter actually is: basements, parking garages, and the middle of ordinarybuildings, with the protection numbers behindeachWater, food, air, power, sanitation, medicine for two weeks, and potassium iodidewith the doses the FDA publishesWho has the bomb, how many, how theywould deliver it, and who they point it at, as of2026Ten fill-in worksheets: the family plan, the shelter walk-through, the supply inventory, thestay-or-go decision Every number traces to a source. Every disputedquestion stays disputed. Nothing in here needs afortune, a militia, or a hole in the ground. Itneeds a map, a radio, a basement, and a decisionmade before the phone goes off.2026 Edition. 271 pages, 19 original maps anddiagrams, ten fill-in worksheets, glossary, index, and sources.3.2 Companion descriptionYou have about fifteen minutes. This is what todo with them.
