6 nuclear war survival booklets

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• Publisher: n/a
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• Date Published: 1961-72
• Place Published: Ottawa
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• Condition: Good
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  1) Your Basement Fallout Shelter. Blueprint For Survival No. 1. Ottawa: Queen's Printer, 1961. iii, 35 p. 20 cm. Fold-out diagrams at back and front. Front one detached. Other diagrams within. Stapled booklet. Foreword by John Diefenbaker, PM. Advice on how to build a shelter, life inside, health and safety, when to leave, shelter supplies, food and water, building materials. 2) Basement Fallout Shelter: a guide for use in the design of new homes. Blueprint for survival no. 2. Ottawa: Central Mortgage and Housing Corporation. 12 p. 21 cm. B&w diagrams. Stapled booklet. 3) 11 Steps To Survival. Blueprint For Survival No. 4. Ottawa: Canada Emergency Measures Organization, Dept. of National Defence. Partial colours. Stapled booklet. Card of R. W. Hipgrave, co-ordinator of St. Thomas-Elgin Emergency Measures Organization stapled to front cover. 52 p. Suggests 14 days of emergency supplies, how to fight fires, know first aid and home nursing, how to get rid of radioactive dust, etc. 4) Survival In Likely Target Areas. Blueprint for Survival No. 5. Ottawa: Queen's Printer, 1962. 24 p. 20 cm. Partial colour illustrations. Stapled booklet. Discussion of where H-Bomb explosions might occur in Canada, radioactive fallout, chance of survival in a basement, etc. 5) Radiation and Man. Toronto: Canadian Nuclear Association, 1972. 30 p. 18 cm. Colour comic-style illustrations. Stapled booklet. Rear cover taped together. 6) Survival in Nuclear War. Ottawa: Queen's Printer. 18 cm leaflet unfolds to 8 double-sided panels. Condensed version of what you should know, along with Q&A.