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225 Pages, in a 8˝ x 11 inch format, with over a hundred
illustrations.
ISBN: 1-886848-17-3 {Item No.17} Price 30.00
Edited by Bruce A.Hanesalo
This book is primarily a reprinting of the U.S.Army’s TM 5-311 Military
Protective Construction (Nuclear Warfare and Chemical and Biological
Operations) (May 1965). A very detailed manual it covers most aspects of
fallout shelter design.
CONTENTS CHARTER 1. CONCEPTS OF SHELTERS I. Introduction II. Shelter protection in the field CHAPTER 2. EFFECTS OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS I. Forms of energy in nuclear detonation II. Blast III. Initial radiation IV. Thermal radiation V. Residual nuclear radiation and fallout CHAPTER 3. EXPEDIENT SHELTERS, INCLUDING USE OF EXISTING FACILITIES I. Introduction II. Conventional buildings III. Fortifications as shelters IV. Mines, tunnels, and caves CHAPTER 4. CRITERIA FOR THE DESIGN OF SHELTERS I. Criteria for providing nuclear protection II. Criteria for providing CB protection CHAPTER 5. ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING I. Introduction II. Disaster condition air supply III. Air conditioning IV. Duct systems V. Filter units VI. Power, water, food, and communications VII. Sanitation VIII.Storage CHAPTER 6. DESIGN OF STRUCTURES I. Introduction II. Corrugated steel buried structures III. Reinforced concrete buried structures CHAPTER 7. EXAMPLE DESIGN I. Introduction II. Sample situation III. Planning IV. Solution APPENDIX I. REFERENCES INDEX
Note: 1. This book is the more advanced companion book to Fallout Design Collection (which give a number of home fallout shelter designs). 2. If you are interested in designs concerned with protection against conventional weapons see: Bunker Design (which is concerned with designing cut and cover type bunkers) and it's companion books Artificial Cave Shelters (with is involved with tunneled bunker designs) and Bunker Design Collection (which is a collection of historical bunker design examples.) 3. We now have two supplements to this book: Basic Supplement and Professional Supplement. |
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