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       Nuclear War, Startling Article on Radiation, (Hormesis)
July 4th, 2002.  On the very last page, after the index, after his
book's discussion of all things relating to Nuclear War, from how to
prepare, to building a shelter, to food and survival, the author
includes this startling article on exposure to radiation.  Note
reference to terrorists using nuclear weapons.

 
Nuclear War Survival Skills, Cresson M. Kearny
1999 Addendum on Hormesis
     None of the copies of Nuclear War Survival Skills, including this
UPDATED AND EXPANDED 1987 EDITION and other editions published before
March 1999, have even mentioned hormesis. The hormesis concept states
that low and high doses of an agent may have opposite effects.
Although a high dose is harmful, a low dose may actually be
beneficial, perhaps by stimulating the body's normal defense and
repair mechanisms.
     When I wrote the first edition of this book, which was first
published in 1979, I knew about hormesis and believed it to be a valid
explanation of a very important survival process. But I did not even
mention hormesis. For I believed that if at the time I did so, then
the chances of any U.S. Government organization advocating and using
my book would be reduced to almost zero. The idea of any radiation
being healthful was unthinkable even to the most well educated people. 
  
     I still believe I made the right decision for the years before
the 1990s, when the collapse of the Soviet Union greatly reduced the
risk of a massive nuclear attack on the United States and increased
the chances of much smaller attacks, especially by terrorists with few
nuclear weapons.
     The facts proving the validity of hormesis are now overwhelming. 
Physicist T.D. Luckey's pioneering book, Radiation Honnesis, has
become a recognized classic. And the studies of Bernard Cohen, Ph.D.,
and other scientists have unexpectedly revealed that Americans living
in homes having "dangerous" radiation from radon and its daughter
products have better health and live longer than comparable persons
exposed to lower radiation levels. See Professor Cohen's irrefutable
paper, "Test of the Linear-No Threshold Theory of Radon Carcinogenesis
for Inhaled Radon Decay Products," Health Physics, 68 (1995), pp
157-174.    
     Those Americans who learn the facts about hormesis will be less
likely to panic if subjected to light fallout from the explosion in
the United States of a few nuclear weapons, or to become fearful if
they learn that they are receiving larger than average radiation doses
from radon and its daughter products in their homes.