Nuke war survival expert dies

[John Jacobus <crispy_bird@YAHOO.COM>]

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From: Nuke Bob [mailto:Know-Nukes@mensetmanus.net]

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Subject: [Know_Nukes] Nuke war survival expert dies





Mon, January 5, 2004



Nuke war survival expert dies



MONTROSE, Colo. (AP) -- Cresson Kearny, an expert on

jungle warfare and the author of a best-selling manual

on how to survive nuclear war, has died after several

years of declining health. He was 89.



Kearny died Dec. 18 in this southwest Colorado town,

where he has lived since 1954, daughter Stephanie

Kearny said Monday.



His book, "Nuclear War Survival Skills," includes

instructions on how to build a fallout shelter and a

radiation meter. The book, first published in 1979,

had sold more than 600,000 copies by the mid-1990s.



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http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22Nuclear+War+Survival+Skills%22

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Stephanie Kearny said her father's copyright ensures

that anyone can publish the book, and he refused to

receive royalties.



Kearny was born Jan. 7, 1914, in San Antonio. He went

on to study at Princeton University and Oxford

University as a Rhodes Scholar.



Before the United States entered World War II, Kearny

developed specialized jungle equipment, training and

tactics for American soldiers, and units of the

Special Forces still use a book he wrote in 1996 as

part of their training, Stephanie Kearny said.



http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/World/2004/01/05/304996-ap.html



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