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Politics : Rat's Nest - Chronicles of Collapse -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Travis_Bickle who wrote (6786)	12/20/2007 5:07:42 PM
From: SG	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 24225

It's illegal to own fissionable material as an individual in the U.S., I'm pretty sure. I haven't read the Cormac book. James Kunstler has a post peak oil book (he won't call it SF) coming out in March. I was able to read a chapter; it is pretty dark and down also. There's going to be big $ in writing those books, LOL! Another set of "survival" books, authored by Mel Tappan in the 70's, is also helpful. He was an economist who died at age 47 of cardiac problems. As I read him then (I still have both books), I did not think he was a nut or an extremist. He espoused no political philosophyy other than preparedness for what he what he thought was an implosion of the U.S. at some point; I don't rememeber any specific cause, though the country was badly polarized around the Vietnam war. He envisioned a family retreat "more than one full tank from major cities". That was before the Prius, LOL. His primary focus was firearms, which he considered the primary necessary tool post-apocalyspe. His book, "Survival Guns", goes on in obsessive detail about them, while "Tappan On Survival" has more general and helpful ideas. His book was republished recently with a forward by Bruce Clayton of "Nuclear War Survival" fame. I saw a reviewer on Amazon parody that with the title "How to survive nuclear war and thrive in the ruins", LOL. It is a big commitment to change one's life now and relocate for a scary future that may come tomorrow, may come in decades, or may take a radically different form than we now consider. Since my wife thinks we are all catastrophists and won't consider changing an iota, I'm afraid I am stuck stockpiling small items, reading a lot and acquiring books, and making a list of potential people and places in my local area that could be useful in a prolonged crisis. SG