After DEFCON 1

The bomb is not what kills most people. The
dust is.

In a government model of a single small nuclear
weapon in Washington, D.C., roughly 280,000 people
who survived the blast became fallout casualties

because they stayed outside. Run the same model
with everyone indoors and 245,000 of those
casualties never happen. No bunker. No suit. Walls
and a day of patience.

After DEFCON 1 is the survival guide for
a country that dismantled its civil defense program
in 1994 and never told anyone. It opens with four
ticking-clock scenarios, Russia, China, North
Korea, and Iran, built from the real arsenals and
real doctrine of 2026. Then it hands you the plan.

• The fifteen-minute window and the ten
  decisions that decide whether you use it, on a page
  you can find with the lights out


• Where the fallout goes: likely targets,
  prevailing winds, and how to read your own address
  on the map


• Where shelter actually is: basements,
  parking garages, and the middle of ordinary
  buildings, with the protection numbers behind
  each


• Water, food, air, power, sanitation,
  medicine for two weeks, and potassium iodide
  with the doses the FDA publishes


• Who has the bomb, how many, how they
  would deliver it, and who they point it at, as of
  2026


• Ten fill-in worksheets: the family plan,
  the shelter walk-through, the supply inventory, the
  stay-or-go decision

Every number traces to a source. Every disputed
question stays disputed. Nothing in here needs a
fortune, a militia, or a hole in the ground. It
needs a map, a radio, a basement, and a decision
made before the phone goes off.

2026 Edition. 271 pages, 19 original maps and
diagrams, ten fill-in worksheets, glossary, index,
and sources.

You have about fifteen minutes. This is what to
do with them.