Cold hands fail first. At around 40°F you lose fine motor control, and you can’t work a zipper, a lighter, or a phone screen. In a winter emergency…
Can You Survive in Toxic Environmental Conditions? Are you aware of the dangers of toxic environmental conditions and how they can affect your health?…
If you find yourself in a lawless environment where traditional systems of government and security are absent, you may be wondering how to survive and…
An electromagnetic pulse is a short, intense burst of electromagnetic energy. It induces current and voltage surges in electronic equipment and wiring…
Threats from space and from cyberspace can both take down the systems your household depends on. This article covers advanced prepping techniques for…
Some of the most serious emergency threats can’t be seen, from biological hazards to cybersecurity risks. Knowing what they are and preparing ahead is…
International disasters and emergencies can reach you even when they start far away, because supply chains, markets, and travel are all linked. This…
Most people who stocked up in early 2020 learned the same lesson at roughly the same time: the basics (food, water, medication) are necessary, but they…
A chemical release can come from an industrial accident, a derailed tank car, a delivered threat or a deliberate attack, and a biological release…
Most preppers build their plans around events they can see coming: a hurricane track, a flood forecast, a hard winter. Space weather is different. It…
Civil unrest rarely arrives without some warning, and it rarely lasts as long as the worst-case imagination suggests. But it can change the character…
In today’s digital age, our reliance on electronics is more prevalent than ever. From smartphones to laptops, these devices have become an essential…
COVID-19 showed how quickly a disease can spread and strain healthcare, supply chains, and communication. The lessons from it apply to your household…
War reaches civilians in many forms: a small-scale conflict, a civil war, an invasion, or something larger. In every one of them the first questions…
If Tsutomu Yamaguchi could survive the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and live up to the age of 93, surviving the radiation from a nuclear…
In a world of uncertainties, it’s important to be prepared for any situation that may arise. The concept of prepping has gained popularity in recent…
A nuclear event does not have a single shape. It might be an accident at a power plant, an act of terrorism, or a detonation in a war between states…
Calamities are possible. This notion, that things actually could go very badly wrong, often seems very far from our shared view of the world. The fact…
Although the chance of an EMP attack is quite low, we cannot deny the fact that it might really happen in the future. An EMP attack can take down a…
The safety topics of today are far different than they were a generation ago. What’s going on in the world is a lot darker and has a more terrifying…