Free Survive Infinite Dangers: The Family Survival Guide of 21st Century Dangers by Gary Yantis

so much the better. Count on each person having some skill useful to your survival group. Elect leader(s) in advance and choose wisely. Leadership in a time of a life and death situation can “go to someone’s head” leading to fighting within your group. Work out all potential problems in advance! Work out who does what in advance! Everyone must have jobs to do and be expected to do them.
    This can cause havoc if your group begins to fight within itself. I can’t stress this enough. You may end up in tight quarters with others for months on end. Can everyone handle this? Make sure they can and develop means to reconcile disputes and stick to them.
     
    Can you repair any of the electronics made inoperable by an EMP pulse? The author is an electrical engineer and I’d say “probably not”. Protect as much as you can in advance then guard what you have that still works. Stock up on batteries and rechargeable batteries as long as you can also find quality solar cell or crank rechargers. The solar cells are silicon as well so they also need to be protected as do solar chargers (they probably have control diodes and transistors in them). Any batteries you buy will be the last ones ever made in your life time. A crank recharger is like gold since it might have a diode in it but that’s it. The crank charger of the Kaito radio also puts out voltage to recharge cell phones and other devices. It may end up being the most valuable item you have short of guns, food and water. Take good care of it. It will be your life line to the world for a long time.

 
    Chapter Four
    Anthrax Aerial Spray and
    Pandemics
     
     
    Anthrax aerial spray: Anthrax occurs naturally in nature. It is in soil but never “pure weapons grade”. Unfortunately, during the last ten years manufacturing “weapons grade anthrax” has become much easier and much cheaper to do. In fact, rumors persist that plans written in Arabic have been found in the Northern Mexico desert to manufacture such anthrax. Anthrax is a white powder that looks like sugar. Fortunately, the government now carefully keeps track of aircraft capable of crop spraying, but what about just across the border in Mexico? An aircraft can be over San Diego with minutes.
     
    Or the thousands of private planes in the United States can be stolen or purchased by terrorists who appear to be law abiding Americans. And almost ANY aircraft can be modified to be a crop sprayer. Or, actually, spray anthrax powder. The number one impediment to spraying of anthrax is that it decays in strength very quickly. It is highly lethal as it becomes “weapons grade”. Those manufacturing the powder would have to be highly trained and outfitted with the very best protection garb and equipment. Even if they planned to die and wore no protection garb they would be dead or incapacitated well before the anthrax could be loaded into pods and a pilot reached a large city then begins spraying back and forth. The FAA would, hopefully, take immediate action and military aircraft would force the aircraft to the ground. Still, before that happens the aircraft might have sprayed 500,000 people. Anthrax (and nuclear radiation for that matter) is just like rain. The more protection you have above you the safer you are. The anthrax returns to a harmless state within days if not weeks. In the meantime all people should seek cover as far under ground as possible. There are other liquids and powders that can be sprayed from the air but anthrax is, by far, the most likely. “Properly” sprayed on a windy day for, say, ten minutes over a major urban area can result in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people. Even anthrax sprayed into the ventilation system of a large building or any confined space such as a subway in which moving trains would quickly spread anthrax dust for miles can be lethal to tens of thousands.
     
    Many major cities now have automatic radiation detectors so that an attack that includes radiation