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Guides — long-form chapters (13)

Biological Outbreak Preparedness at the Household Level

In the second week of March 2020, a homestead in Fannin County watched the news shift from "this is a problem in China" to "this is a problem in…

Biological Threats: Recognition and Containment

Biological threats to a homestead come in two distinct forms, and the response is largely the same regardless of source — recognition, isolation,…

Chemical and Biological Threat Basics for the Off-Grid Homesteader

In a grid-down, no-government scenario, the chemical and biological threats you face are more likely to come from mundane sources — a ruptured…

Chemical Hazard Recognition — Identifying Industrial and Military Chemical Threats

CBRN Basics Guide 06 — Steadwise Offline Survival Dataset

Chemical Release: Industrial, Agricultural, Household

A homestead in Fannin County is closer to chemical risk than a typical urban household, not because rural areas are inherently more hazardous, but…

Chemical Spill Response on or Near the Homestead

On a Friday evening in February 2023 a Norfolk Southern train carrying vinyl chloride, butyl acrylate, and ethylhexyl acrylate derailed and burned at…

Decontamination and Shelter-in-Place Protocols

In the late afternoon of March 28, 1979, a stuck-open relief valve on Reactor 2 at the Three Mile Island nuclear plant outside Harrisburg,…

DOT Emergency Response: The 2024 ERG for the Homesteader

The Department of Transportation Emergency Response Guidebook is a small, hard-bound, orange-and-white reference issued by the Pipeline and Hazardous…

Improvised Decontamination — Procedures for Chemical, Biological, and Radioactive Contamination

CBRN Basics Guide 04 — Steadwise Offline Survival Dataset

Improvised Detection and Monitoring for CBRN Events

When the grid is down, there are no emergency broadcast alerts, no NOAA weather radio updates, and no government officials telling you what happened…

Nuclear Event Survival — Shelter, Time, Distance, and Shielding

This guide covers the essential knowledge a homesteader needs to survive a nuclear event when there are no emergency services, no government…

Radiation Monitoring Basics — Detecting and Measuring Fallout Without Modern Instruments

CBRN Basics Guide 05 — Steadwise Offline Survival Dataset

Radiological Emergency: Recognition, Shelter, Decontamination

A homestead practitioner needs to distinguish three radiological scenarios because the response to each is different. Conflating them produces wrong…

Manuals & references (8)

CD ExpedientShelterHandbook DTIC

Reference document.

CD FalloutShelterManagement Handbook

Reference document.

CD H16 ShelterManagement 1978

Reference document.

CD InTimeOfEmergency 1968

Reference document.

CD SurvivalUnderAtomicAttack 1950

Reference document.

CD TenForSurvival 1959

Reference document.

NIOSH PocketGuide ChemicalHazards

Reference document.

USAMRIID BlueBook BiologicalCasualties

Reference document.

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