U.S. Army. In 1961 he took a position doing civil defense research with the Hudson Institute. In 1964 he joined the Oak Ridge National Laboratory civil defense project. During the Vietnam War, Kearny served as a civilian advisor to the U.S. Army, making several trips to the theater of operations. Much of the supporting research that went into his most famous work, Nuclear War Survival Skills (NWSS), was conducted during the 1970s. Including a study on how the US might be affected by a potential nuclear war from the Sino-Soviet split, specifically focusing on the question; what would be the severity and how might the US deal with contamination of CONUS milk supplies that might result from the "trans-pacific" nuclear fallout that would originate over China. Along with other more long-term survival publications such as "Maintaining nutritional adequacy during a prolonged food crisis [Basic foods for post-nuclear attack use]". He died in 2003. In a New York Times obituary, his daughter Stephanie commented: "Throughout his life he believed in being prepared for trouble." Published work Kearny's most notable work is Nuclear War Survival Skills (NWSS). It describes civil defense research to determine the methods for ordinary citizens to build effective expedient shelters in a short period of time. It includes "MacGyver-like" plans for the Kearny air pump (KAP), Kearny fallout meter (KFM) and blast doors designed to be published in a newspaper prior to an attack. This book is in the public domain and is available for purchase, as well as free download online, from the Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine. His other works include Jungle Snafus ... and Remedies, a book on the history of development of specialized equipment for use by military forces in jungle regions, and Will Civil Defense Work? Bibliography Jungle Snafus...And Remedies, Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine (1996), Nuclear War Survival Skills The KFM, A Homemade Yet Accurate and Dependable Fallout Meter (Co-author) ORNL-5040, January 1978 Will Civil Defense Work?, Greenhaven Press, June 1985, See also Bruce D. Clayton Fallout shelter Nuclear War Survival Skills Office of Strategic Services Retreat (survivalism) Survivalism References External links Free online version of Nuclear War Survival Skills Cresson Kearny's Obituary 1914 births 2003 deaths United States Army officers Survivalists United States Army personnel of World War II Recipients of the Legion of Merit People of the Office of Strategic Services People of the Cold War Oak Ridge