Principles of Protection: U. S. Handbook of NBC Weapon Fundamentals and Shelter Engineering Design Standards - Hardcover

Walton W. McCarthy

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1612541143 ISBN 13: 9781612541143

Publisher: Brown Books Publishing Group, 2013

Synopsis

PRINCIPLES OF PROTECTION sets forth the definitive design standards for underground nuclear, biological, chemical, and EMP shelter engineering. The book was written by Walton McCarthy who is a mechanical engineer with 36 years’ experience in designing and installing over 1,200 underground shelters. The book was written with help from people of the US Department of Defense, US Department of Energy, Strategic Applications International, Oak Ridge National Laboratories, Nuclear Engineering Laboratory from the University of Illinois, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Chemical Division of Edgewood Arsenal, US National Bureau of Standards, and the US Defense Nuclear Agency. This is the book that the US Government should have written with tables showing actual radiation doses based on the distance from ground zero and the size of the nuclear weapon. It is used by engineers and architects around the world.

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About the Author

Walton McCarthy is a mechanical engineer with a BS from Montana State University and a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the American Society of Testing and Materials, and the Composite Fabricators Association. He is also a licensed pilot and HAM radio operator. Some of his contributions to the fields of engineering and civil defense include the following: a new rating system for underground shelters to determine radiation doses inside a shelter known as the Total REMs in Shelter system or TRS, the Overpressure Choking Theory used to negate the effect of blast valves, fiberglass structures composed of multiple compound curves designed to resist multiple external pressures, and developing various underground shelter emergency escape methods. McCarthy has also worked with many government specialists in developing practical data for residential, corporate, and military applications.

From the Inside Flap

Principles of Protection, now in its sixth edition, has become the bible for underground shelter engineering design standards over the past twenty years. The book covers protection from nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons as well as natural disasters. McCarthy presents a wealth of standards and information, discussing the following and much more: nuclear weapon effects tables, air filtration standards, electromagnetic pulse (EMP) shielding standards, internal pressure control methods, radiation shielding tables for earth over the shelter, radiation doses entering through the shelter entranceway, sealed shelter atmosphere methods, hatch design, sanitation and septic systems, electrical systems, water filtration methods, and farming with EMP-safe tractors.

Edition details

• Publisher: Brown Books Publishing Group
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1612541143
• ISBN 13: 9781612541143
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 6
• Number of pages: 744