Protection against Nuclear Weapons


Update   (April 9, 2012)

Currently, we are combining this course with the Protection against WMD course. This fusion of courses will mean reduced expenses for customers. A reduction in the amount of supplied information will ultimately result in greater added value. Sometime at the end of May the combination of these two courses could be completed.


Most people consider the relations between the West and the East friendly. We, however, believe that thanks to the policy of the West we have again entered a new Cold War. World events are accelerating and gaining in force and scope. The West is carrying out very dangerous maneuvers that will probably backfire very soon. The East has nowhere to retreat… After the alleged death of Osama bin Laden in the beginning of May last year, we are still expecting the development of events we had described in March 2011 in the article What Lies Ahead in 2011 and 2012. In our view, this alleged death has brought the outbreak of a global thermonuclear war rapidly closer. We expect somebody passing themselves off as al-Qaeda to carry out a smaller nuclear strike against the United States – that is unless it succeed in provoking a war in the Middle East some other way. We expect the nuclear attack to be targeted at one of the ports. But there are also other options, for example an inland town in America or a target in Iraq. We think that after that events will gather momentum. A nuclear conflict in the Middle East would however be but the start of the problems. The thermonuclear war will, in our view, then spread rapidly. We expect it to grow into a world war within a couple of weeks or months.

To be able to cope during a nuclear war and especially after it, the least we need to have is very good knowledge of how to protect ourselves against nuclear weapons. Moderate knowledge is too little, and general knowledge is of no use at all. Moderate knowledge can be acquired by carefully reading and studying some books on protection against nuclear weapons. Under normal circumstances, too acquire a very good knowledge of protection against the effects of nuclear weapons, we need to study a slightly larger amount of specialized military literature, i.e. not just texts on the internet, which requires the corresponding amount of time. Such literature is relatively expensive and difficult to get – a great majority of such titles are simply not available from bookshops. And as for outstanding knowledge of protection against the effects of nuclear weapons, this is something only experts who deal with these issues on a long-term basis have. It is no exaggeration when we say that such experts existed mainly at the time of the Cold War when they acted especially as commanders of army chemical units or commanders of civil defense units.

Towards the end of the article What Lies Ahead in 2011 and 2012 we used a simplified model of a town to illustrate the approximate impacts of a 100 kt contact surface thermonuclear burst. However, if, for example, we were to change the average wind speed from ground up to the top of the stabilized radioactive cloud, the total number of civilian casualties due to radiation from fallout could also differ significantly. If instead of a surface nuclear burst, we would be evaluating the effects of an air or underground nuclear burst, then the resulting number of dead would again differ. It should be noted that in the case of an air or underground nuclear burst the numbers of dead and injured would of course depend on the height or depth of the burst. This means that if we had at hand, for example, ten identical 100 kt nuclear weapons and let them explode at ten different places (the bottom of a dam, above a dam, in a town with modern high-rise buildings, in a town with low brick houses, above a town built from brick buildings, in the mountains, in a desert, …) and we were, say, 3 km (1.9 mi.) from the epicenter, in each individual case we would encounter more or less different effects. Once the main risk may for us be light and heat radiation, elsewhere it might be the blast wave or radioactive contamination of the terrain by local fallout. The greatest threat for us in the mountains could be initial radiation. So, nuclear weapons of the same power can have significantly different effects under different conditions – this must be taken into account if we want to learn how to protect ourselves against them.

There is a widespread conjecture among people that after a thermonuclear war everything would be permanently contaminated by heavily radioactive fallout, thus any protection against the effects of nuclear weapons is useless. If that were the case, we would be offering neither this course nor the design and construction of fallout shelters, manual filter-ventilation device nor any analyses assessing the impacts of nuclear explosions on improvised shelters.

Radiation level on the terrain is influenced by many factors, for example (among others) the force of the burst; the type and composition of the nuclear weapon; the distance from the epicenter; the type of burst (underground without ejection of soil, underground with ejection of soil, surface, low airburst, high airburst, high-altitude burst, underwater and on water surface); the time that has passed since burst; wind direction and velocity from the ground up to the top of the stabilized radioactive cloud; the border of the stratosphere at the relevant latitude; altitude above the sea level; the shape of the landscape … Thus while in some regions the radiation level on the terrain from local fallout would be significant from the military point of view, in others there might be no threat to speak of. Radiation level changes significantly during the first days and weeks after the burst, so any minimal period of stay in fallout or improvised shelters would differ depending on the distance from the epicenter etc. Thanks to this course we will be able to know what to do even at distance of roughly 3 km (1.9 mi.) from the epicenter of a 500 kt nuclear burst, even without a protective mask or other protective equipments.

What you will learn in the Protection against Nuclear Weapons course


Originally we planned to provide the course in electronic form from the end of 2011, but we have been working on a number of other projects and have been able to work on the preparation of the course only in our free time. Hopefully, we will be able to complete the work on the course during the second quarter of 2012. We apologize for the delay.

Price: CZK 2,799 (approx. USD 150 or EUR 115 – depending on the current rate of exchange of the Czech crown on the date of payment).

Method of payment: by bank transfer, payment card or via PayPal – before the course   (we will, of course, issue an invoice).


There is no need to worry about not understanding something explained during the course. The course is presented in plain language to make it coherent for both a ten-year-old child and seventy-year-old grandmother. Technical terms are often substituted by “common” speak and the subject is usually explained in a straightforward manner.TOPlist