Section 1: Alert Level and Updates

This is the non-standard peacetime alert level. All is quiet, though there have been some events which warrant observation. There are no known imminent nuclear threats. More likely than not, nothing will happen and the DEFCON level will eventually revert back to Green. Updates will be given every three weeks with immediate updates issued as the situation warrants.

Section 2: Maintaining Normal Activity

Generally speaking, there is no need to alter activity from Level Green. The DEFCON Warning System is designed to be sensitive to certain situations, and has gone to Blue several times in the past and reverted back to Green a few weeks later. This is normal and nothing to be concerned about.

Section 3: Stocking up on Supplies and Fallout Shelter

Continue to stock up on non-perishable supplies and building your fallout shelter.

 

Section 1: Alert Level and Updates

Events of concern are occurring in the world theatre. There are no known immediate nuclear threats, however the situation is considered fluid. Updates will be given every seven days with immediate updates issued as the situation warrants.

Section 2: Uncertainty and Decision-making

This is the most uncertain of the Alert levels. You must make a decision every day (or sometimes every hour) as to whether you think the situation will resolve itself or get out of hand. To be on the realistic side, you should hope for the best but plan for the worst.

Section 3: The Role of DEFCON Warning System

Like Blue, the world has gone to this level several times and marched back. The DEFCON Warning System is a barometer, not a prognosticator. You must decide for yourself what to do with information you have.

Section 4: Evacuation and Fallout Shelter

At this level, it is recommended that if you live in a city or near another target, you begin to make evacuation plans to a safer area.

1. Be sure you have family there who will take you in and can have an appropriate fallout shelter and supplies for you. (Generally, you should bring your own supplies and not rely on others.)
2. If the crisis worsens, you may wish to evacuate before the Alert level rises to the next stage.
3. If you have not already done so, now is the time to begin building a fallout shelter. Use plans for an Expedient shelter and, if there is time later, you can expand upon them.

Section 5: Gathering Supplies and Preparation

Begin gathering fuel supplies, keeping them separate from your shelter.

1. Ensure your weapons are clean and serviceable; obtain them if you don’t have any and learn how to use them.
2. Gather supplies of food with long shelf-life (cereals, flour, rice, dehydrated foods), vitamins, medicines, and other necessary items.
3. Obtain enough dry food for pets to last an indefinite period.
4. Plan for at least two years of self-sufficiency; consider gathering seed supplies for farming if you have land. Wheat and honey provide essential nutrients and are cost-effective options.
5. Remember to include supplements to compensate for any dietary deficiencies.

Section 6: Financial Considerations and Shopping

When buying supplies, especially on the higher Alert levels, consider placing your purchases on a credit card. If WWIII breaks out, who is going to come and collect?

Section 7: Benefits of Preparedness

Remember, if nothing happens, you will be able to use all these things anyway, so nothing will actually go to waste. You’ll just have done your grocery shopping early and gotten it out of the way!

 

Section 1: Alert Level and Updates

Hostilities have or are about to break out. There is the possibility of a nuclear strike. Updates will be given every day with immediate updates issued as the situation warrants.

Section 2: Evacuation Considerations

If you live in a targeted city with a population of 100,000 or more or you are near another target area and you do not have a blast shelter (different than a fallout shelter…likely you will not have a blast shelter) then consider evacuation.

Section 3: Stocking up on Supplies and Finances

Check your inventory. Anything you lack in food or supplies you should make up for now. Get as much as you can. Make several trips if you have to. Remember, put it on the credit card. If you have a bank account, close it and hold all the cash in your shelter or other safe place.

Section 4: Building an Expedient Shelter

If you do not have a shelter, then you must begin making an Expedient shelter now.

1. Two people can make a 6 person Expedient shelter that is 3-1/2 feet wide, 4-1/2 feet high, and 16-1/2 feet long in less than 48 hours. (In this particular timed experiment, a father and son took 36 hours to build their shelter near the edge of a cornfield. The ground was not hard but was not tilled, either. Your results will, of course, vary.)

 

Section 1: Alert Level and Updates

A nuclear attack is in progress or is considered to be highly likely. It is planned for the Alert level to go to Red before an actual attack. This will introduce a possibility of error, but will also give the most warning. You must decide for yourself whether to act upon it or not.

1. Updates will be given at 7 A.M and 7 P.M Pacific Time with immediate updates issued as the situation warrants. Post-attack, radiation levels will be given if possible.
2. Updates for radiation will also be given at 8 A.M. and 8 P.M. Pacific Time. Immediate updates will be issued as the situation warrants.

Section 2: Building a Fallout Shelter

For those in an attack area, if you do not have a fallout shelter, you must begin making one immediately.Do not travel far from your shelter. If you are in a city or near another nuclear target, you may not have time to evacuate and it may no longer be possible due to jammed roadways or travel restrictions.

Section 3: Water Preparation

Fill all plastic bottles with water. Fill your bathtub and sinks with water as well. If you can fill it with water, do so. You can never have too much water. Repeat: You can never have too much water! Remember that the water in your hot water tank is also another source of clean water.

Section 4: Gathering Supplies and Power Disconnect

If there is anything you need in your shelter that you do not have there already, move it there. Disconnect all power sources to prevent damage from any EMP. (Note that the EMP effect is only theoretical.)Keep your family together during the crisis.

Section 5: Supply Run (Note: Not Recommended)

If you have no supplies and the Alert level has just changed, then you may decide to take a (enormous) risk and do a desperate supply run. There is a chance that you may still have time. Likely, however, a panicked public has already taken all the supplies. Note that we do not recommend this course of action, but a fallout shelter with no supplies is not a fallout shelter but a tomb.