The other "substantial" book, Life After Doomsday: A Survivalist Guide to Nuclear War and Other Major Disasters by Bruce D. Clayton, itself is stated to praise and borrow from Nuclear War Survival Skills.
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Nuclear War Survival Skills or NWSS, by Cresson Kearny, is a civil defense manual.
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Nuclear War Survival Skills was released into the public domain by the author, and is available in digital format for free from several sources online.
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The plans for this meter were published in Appendix C of Nuclear War Survival Skills by Cresson Kearny from research performed at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.