Civil-defence field guide
The first minutes decide the outcome. This guide turns official guidance into clear, ordered actions — what to do in the first ten minutes, the first 48 hours, and the weeks that follow.
Inside the guide
No fear-mongering, no filler. Just the decisions that matter, in the order you'll need them.
Get inside, stay inside, stay tuned — the three rules, plus exactly where in a building to shelter.
How fallout radiation falls away over time — and what that means for when it's safe to move.
A ladder of real-world shelters by how much radiation they block — from a car to a basement core.
Real attack situations played out step by step — yield, distance, wind and what survival looks like.
When potassium iodide helps (and when it doesn't), dosing by age, and treating burns and radiation injury.
The paid PDF is laid out for A4 so you can print it, keep it in your kit, and use it with no power or signal.
Two ways to use it
The full guide is free to read online. Buy the PDF when you want a copy that works offline — and on paper.
Online reader
£0
The complete guide, in your browser.
Printable PDF
£5 one-off
A copy that works when the grid doesn't.
The guide
A complete, plain-English manual for surviving a nuclear event — from the flash and blast to fallout, sheltering, decontamination and the long road back. Written to be read calmly now and used decisively later, with diagrams, quick-reference tables and worked scenarios throughout.
The library
We're building the same calm, field-tested treatment for the emergencies most likely to affect ordinary households.
The full master guide — read free or get the PDF for £5.
Staying warm, fed and informed through an extended blackout.
Sheltering, supplies and household care during an outbreak.
Questions
Yes. The complete guide is free to read online, one page at a time. You only pay if you want the downloadable, printable PDF to keep and use offline.
A single PDF of the entire guide, laid out for A4 printing. After payment you get a private one-time download link, so you can save the file and print a copy for your emergency kit.
It's unique to your purchase and expires after a short window, so save the PDF as soon as you've downloaded it. If a download fails or your link expires before you've saved the file, contact us and we'll reissue it.
Payment is handled securely by Stripe. Your card details never touch this site — you're taken to Stripe's checkout and brought straight back to your download afterwards.
No. It's an educational guide that summarises publicly available guidance from sources such as FEMA, the CDC, the WHO and the IAEA. In a real emergency, always follow the instructions of your local authorities.