Preparing Your Family for Nuclear War: A Kit to Help 

I hope that you enjoyed watching this video of my Family CBRN Kit! This particular video took me MONTHS to finish, but I am pretty happy with how it came out. Here's a link to the PDF that contains a list of all of the items included in this video: bit.ly/2MMA2P5 . As you can imagine, it's tough convincing your 4 year old daughter to put on a hazmat suit and walk around a scary building for a RU-vid video. Both of my kids really brought their A Games to the making of this video. This video covers just the Clothing aspect of CBRN preparedness, as this is really a vast topic with multiple aspects to it. Thanks again for watching and for your support of my channel! ~Cliff

I worked in a sterile/clean area at a pharmaceutical company for over 5 years. We were taught to create a tab of tape on our wrist wraps for easy removal of the tape. It will cut down on colorful metaphors when trying to undress quickly.

Hey brother, just a quick note about NSB Kitsap. I served there during the Cold War when it was known as NSB Bangor. I was part of the Marine fleet security responsible for the security of the weapons stored there. There's nothing stored at that base that you should be worried about with regards to nuclear contamination outside of the base itself. The only threat would be the detonation of one or more of the warheads which is nearly impossible. I don't want to say "never" but nuclear weapons don't accidentally go off. 😃I'm only posting this because you really don't need to worry about NSB Kitsap, unless Russia or China decide to attack at which point the entire area would become a massive crater. You earned a new sub today, thank you for being such a great content creator here on RU-vid.

Just like you, how can I be prepared for just us adults but not for our kids? Same dilemma. Can’t believe it’s taken this long for a whole family setup like this. Thanks for the great video! Love how your wife pushed you into this.

If youtube doesnt push this video the algorithm is officially broken.

This video should be voted way to the top! A MUST SEE!! Thank you for taking the time.

In light of Covid 19, this family doesnt seem crazy after all! (Note, I never thought this was crazy).

You're awesome with this stuff! Thank you for all the time and preparation you do

Epic video! Thanks for all the time and dedication to high quality reviews of great products.

Thanks a lot, I've been looking for this so many years... Glad you made one now

Best video I've seen from a CBRN preparedness standpoint. Thank you for sharing your journey!

I am a retired Health Physicist/Radiation Safety Officer/Life Safety Officer. Been subscribed to your channel for several years. Your background research/info demonstrated is spot on. Already got my order in for updated CBRN supplies.

A very well done and informative video. In light of current events, I watched this again today and shared it with my prepcircle.

Thanks for the work you put in to help others know what is available for children's protection!!

unbelievably informative and once again an excellent presentation,deliverance and well put together video!

Excellent as ever, great video and useful guide for those who have not done any NBC/CBRN training.

Another AMAZING video, comprehensive kit, and helpful PDF!!! Untold numbers of people are going to live through a CBRN disaster because of you, Sir. GREAT PRESENTATION! Thanks.

Those kids gloves really got me stoked. I am an adult however got kid sized hands. The small adult gloves fit well but still a little room in the finger tips and wrist area. Thanks for bringing that up!!

Order out of chaos. Peace of mind through preparedness!!🏆… Boy I tell ya. Guys like you and City Prepping and Canadian Prepper are truly a beacon of hope to the preparedness community! Thanks bud.

Thanks for the info, Cliff! I just started my CBRN preps last month. No kids, but figuring out how to protect the dogs will be fun!

Really great video! That's an awesome set you filmed at for the opening footage & clips, creates a great mood 👍 this truly is one of the darker and scarier possibilities of a collapse..I hope for us all this gear never has to be used either, but I'm glad you were able to find what you needed with MIRA! They seem to make some great gear, and I'm excited to see the review of the little geiger counter. Have a great rest of your day!!

Good timing on the video. I was just wondering what I was gonna wear if I ever decide to travel to D6 to fight the dark ones lol.

Another awesome (and wallet affecting) video.

CBRN = Such a huge aspect of preparedness. A pretty comprehensive set of personal protection gear - You should obtain - *Decontamination kits* - these would allow you to carry out personal decontamination and further avoid chemical, residual vapour hazards, particularly whilst wearing non-absorbent suits. I personally, would wear 3 layers under those suits and wear the gloves over the top of the cuffs. (Remember to keep those counters/Dosimeters calibrated)! It's good to see some new 'off-the-shelf' set of CBRN gear available to the public that isn't Govt surplus and that has a great shelf life. Good Job (I would include at least 3 sets per person).

Love the info and video. Thanks man

Very well done,be proud of yourself mister!

I’m glad that you said you hope this is all a waste of money and not needed. While prepping, I’m getting so cynical and penny pinching that I keep hoping I do need my stuff someday. I have to remember that. Life is not about prepping. Prepping is about enjoying life. And if you enjoyed life with ever having to make use of your preps, you did well.

Thanks for this, sir. I’m even closer to that Navy base than your are. Gonna have to get geared up!

Thanks for your research!

Great job as usual!

Thinking about holes in my preps, I stumbled across this great video. I will be getting many of the items listed. There is no substitute for clean air.

Couldn’t have timed this video any better

Great video! New sub! We have 5 children and I’ve never seen child suits so I am so relieved to have found your channel and this company that sells them! Amazing! I truly wish that none of us had to even be worried with these things, but since we do, I am thankful to have found your channel and all the valuable information you have been sharing! So a huge THANK YOU for the awesome and important videos you’re making!!

Thankyou for making this video it’s really helpful stay blessed

The Satsop Nuclear facility never actually became operational, and has never seen any radioactive material.

thank u for sharing this

Thank you.

THANK YOU🙏🏾

Thanks again

Thank you so much for making this - I think aside from just the horrific thought of N and R - so many major metros are also near chemical processing and refining facilities... which would be the "C" in CBRN... anyway - your vids are REALLY appreciated - God bless you and yours.

Well done sir!

That’s interesting. The quality looks great and the company really thought things out. Thinking of the family should always be first and I like the setup. Good stuff! I was thinking they would make awesome Halloween costumes with the family for the trick or treaters.😂👍🍻

WOW THKS

I'm a retired environmental professional. The following is based on my experience with chemical/confined space detection equipment. This kind of equipment is not only expensive, but there are also upkeep costs and time commitments for upkeep. Most of the equipment can not just be stored away. In order to use the equipment, it must be calibrated on a regular basis. Calibration gases and sensors expire. The gases usually expires within a years time and are expensive. Sensors have varying times for expiration but generally expire between 1 to 3 yrs. Please do your homework carefully. You need to put time into learning what kinds of chemicals are in use in your area first. It will impact your decisions. Good luck and great video.

Thanks for the video and of course for the link to buy those items. I will sub.

You can literally get suits and masks that are cheaper and better than the ones in this video. There is no need to spend £230 on a gas mask just buy a second hand one they are exactly the same for a much cheaper price. The exact same for nbc suits

And for a good respirator for a child I would recommend a size small AVON S10 or a AVON CT12 or AVON FM12

Perfect time to repost this

your kids filter need a necklace or sling of some sort to prevent a broken seal between their faces and the protective masks. The weight of the filter will pull the mask away from their faces. There is also a leak between the bottom of their masks and the protective suit. That leak leaves exposure of bare skin.

Outstanding vid brother. If I may suggest, grab either a pack of paint pens or colored duct tape and mark the top/handle of your bags for quick recognition during rapid deployment. The paint pens you can draw a large shape on the top corners of your bags matching the color of the tag or use the duct tape to wrap the lower ends of each handle matching the color of the tag.

I have over 31 years in the nuclear industry, including 5 years as a level 3 Respirator/ SCBA tech. Before that I worked as a fermentation Microbiologist I can tell you your suit is fine but you would get too hot very quickly and couldn’t stay in it long. Especially if you had to do any real work or just walking. You're better off getting an optically clear vinyl bubble (for your head only) and adding a low flow air pump with a pre-filter, a foam filter and then a hepa filter to supply the hood with positive pressure air. If you were really worried about leaks around your filters, you could add a UV-C tube inside the air line supply tube just after the Hepa filter. No good for toxins or poison gas but probably good for most biological hazards, but use at your own risk because obviously it wouldn’t be a certified suit. The movie Contagion shows a similar suit design. Contagion is a very accurate movie considering the current Coronavirus situation.

Everyone can have a kit like this but if you live in a city thats known like new York or London your pretty much done for, also depends on how quick you can also get the suit on alot of people dont realise you can't take you suit off once radiation has hit the ground and you would need to have a decontamination kit and many backup suits because just 1 won't last

Those kids are so adorable!

That might be needed soon

I just missed the 3 Mile Island nuclear incident in Pennsylvania 40 years ago. No radioactive plumb, but the plant closed several weeks ago.

As an fyi to those. I’d recommend “chem tape” for wrapping ankles and wrists for the tychem suits you are wearing. Also the MCR gloves appear to be a neoprene glove, mcr isn’t the only mfg to produce this glove

He stumbles at 0:38 lol it's so funny how he is holding that filter cartridge and that scanner 🤣 prolly exhausted from being in it lol poor little fella. You sir inspired me to get that gear just in case. Good job tho on protecting your family

The gear looks incredible, got me a Soviet PMG and I wanna get it a filter to see if it works.

Excellent !!! thks :))

Great video. I think the only addition I would make for added peace of mind as well as convenience would be to add a pill/tablet cutter to each of the kids bags to ensure they get an accurate iodine dosage. The last thing I would be wanting to do is trying to cut tablets with a knife during a radiological event. I also wouldn’t want to be fretting and wondering if I have given enough or too much to the children. It would be stressful enough without creating additional worries.

Wow nice kits. My understanding of the use of Iodine tablets is only necessary if possible contaminated food will be used. I would add a pill cutter in there kits if you have to cut them, especially in 1/4.

Great vid brother. Although important, CBRN will always be something I dislike training for mostly because the military forces us to stay in CBRN Gear for a 12+ hours a day for week or so once or twice a year (depending on the installation). 🤷🏻‍♂️ It’s important stuff though and it’s a topic that most civilians are unfamiliar with. 👍

Hey Cliff your a great dad to your children and offer them the best protection possible but I have a question does the Mira Safety Haz Suit come with gloves and boots and I also recently bought the p3 partimax filters

A tablet cutter or two might be handy especially if the tablets aren’t grooved to break easier. Even then they can be tricky to split evenly and large hands might struggle to manage breaking them.

Interesting detailed video ! A few comments. 1) Mira imports for US products as the adult gasmasks, filters and suits, from a Czech well known and highly reliable brand (you see on a filter Made in Czech republik), and the child mask comes from Russia, this is the last version of the former rather good range of child gasmasks of soviet era, with the hose on the nose or on the right cheek. Yet I should check the 40mm thread for the child gas mask, since Russian masks as former soviet and ex USSR satellites use a GOST 40mm thread, not a RD 40 (know as NATO as well) - China uses RD40mm, with right filters and hoses. It looks working, but does not provide a perfect seal and the thread can be damaged with the wrong filter / mask. Just a question, I dont know if Mira does a transformation on the hose. 2) the suit is a sauna suit and can induce a heat threat quickly, the Czech brand provides for long wearing a fully ventilated hazmat suit with several filters - price is not the same ... 3) You think to traditional NBC threats, indeed, but far more likely to happen - and they do happen !!! are threats from wildfires (smoke) AND industrial fires or leaks. Just to know that such a fire happened on 26th September in Rouen France, in the middle of the night, the Lubrizol plant (hydrocarbures, oils) is located at about a few meters up to 1 km from the houses and city center ! and the highly toxic fumes covered the area up to Holland. No evacuation, no sanitary assistance, total denial from authorities. Such respirators could have been useful during the hours of fire (2.45 am up to the evening, not speaking of the pollution since 4 weeks now) . Check Lubrizol Rouen on YT; FB, net ...

You can make these protection suits yourself and save a lot of money,buy fabrik and sew reserve suits too.

Hey UrbanPrepper, great video. I too have small children. How did you get them into these suits, etc, without scaring them with details?

God job!

There are much cheaper Rd 40 abec filters out there. Enjoyed the video Edit: it's also a good idea to carry a carbon monoxide detector since these filters do not filter carbon monoxide. If you have a filter that does have the special Catalyst then you're only going to get 15 minutes per filter for carbon monoxide and then the usual length of time after that for all the other things

What a great looking family! Just 1 concern. Do the do-rags under head gear interfere with seal? Thanks for sharing and inspiring!!

I would consider adding chemical tape for sealing the suit or simply using duct tape to seal the cuffs about the arms and legs and the zipper seals on the suit

As a born and raised Washingtonian, I must say Satsop nuclear power plant never housed or produced anything nuclear. It started being built in the late 70's. It was only about 75% completed before the project was scraped in 1983. It is now Satsop Business Park, a mixed use business park. You can take tours of the cooling towers which they left standing instead of dismantling them. As a business park the facility is used for all types of businesses- ncluding Overstock.com. The facility is also rented as a movie set and was used in Transformers-age of Extinction. Visit Satsop.com

Great preparness :) How often would you review the fit of the gear? Does each suit cover a range of sizes i.e. for myself, could they go from a L to XXL depending on what size I am

Crazy to know that you thought that far ahead now look where we are today 7/29/22 smart guy.

Isn’t the child’s mask from the Soviet Union they take gost threaded filters

The real crime is the price of MIRA equipment

New Bible , Man I understood u completely

13:55 please make sure your kids bandana isnt sitting under the gas mask seal! It is important that you have a tight seal around your face and fabric under a mask will compromise it.

11:28 Once you remove that mylar bag that is vacuum sealed, your filter won't last 20 years, but 20 weeks more or less. That filter doesn't have front cap to seal it if use is not required. So store your filters you intend to use package vacuum sealed. Othervise, don't depend on it's protection too much.

Excellent research and great video. I know this is serious but can we just look at those cutie kids for a minute??? Thanks for all your work on this.

Dude, I am with you a bit late but here we go... 2022...

you’re closest nuclear plant is 93 miles away, I live in-between two nuclear plants, each is 3 km away

Very good video.

Ok this is pretty cool

Man... you were on it.

Please can you post the links to get the bags , boots, gloves etc ....ordering everything today thank you for all you do you are appreciated !! Hugs and blessings 😇🎈🙏

Very helpful to help with the prep' in regards to the situation we are facing in Europe right now, where I am living. Thanks mate. Would you recommend addind some lead aprons to help protect against Gamma ray in the event of a plant explosion ? Is the Hazmat suit single use ( once we have gone out with it to find a shelter for example we cant re-use it and wear it it back on to go out and seek food, help etc ) ? Thanks

Anybody here because of Coronavirius? 🙋 I'm doing everything I can within my power to protect my family.

This is beyond ...

Very nice vid good buy would recommend

Excellent presentation. Bigger issue is for average seniors is affordability. And I'm talking no investments to depend on. I was just wondering if you're aware of purchasing an older home, and what is within that could slow down whatever is outside. Consider old paint-jobs. There's a layer of protection, as long as the old plaster walls have not been replaced with drywall. Our biggest issue is a lot of very big windows. 🤯

Hope that the canisters that you put on the mask were for demonstration purposes only. Understand that they will quickly lose their effectiveness once removed from their protective packaging. the activated charcoal will quickly absorb all kinds of airborne particles and become ineffective in protecting you from CBRN hazards. You will need to have another sealed canister ready for your mask. One thing that the manufacturer will not state is that the canister is only good for a couple of hours in a heavily contaminated environment. You will need to exit the hazard plume quickly and decon yourself once in a safe area. Also, you will need to train everyone on how to donn/doff the gear quickly ensuring that no skin is exposed. Additionally any bug out gear will need to be stored and carried in multiple layered contractor trash bags to keep the bags and contents from being contaminated as well. Hit me up if you have any questions!

Can you reuse the same equipment if you cleaned it off like if you lived in a bunker and and sprayed down the whole suit in a soapy water mixture and hung up the suit to use for a later time ?

I have my dad's gas mask from when he was in the British army , we have 4 ( he got to keep his for a pack of chocolate biscuits as the blokes who sign off it out just didn't care ! Sadly we don't have the filters or sui ts😥😥

Aloha! WHAT TYPE OF GAS MASK ARE THE KIDS WEARING? Q: Is there a way to attach the tube and filter to your Hazmat suit to keep hands free?? You're full of great tips! Mahalo Stay safe & God bless you all!

9:14 I was wondering when the iodine tablets would make an appearance 😂

Actually, before in was nbc, it was cbr, chemical, biological, radiological. The change occurred in the mid seventies.

Cliff, great video and the only one I've found to protect the family. Have you an update to this video for 2022? As I live in London, do you know if these kits are available in the UK? With what's happening in Europe, I think the UK is on the hit list. Thanks a million

The biggest problem is that none of those preps will be useful if you are to too close to a nuclear blast. Same goes for all those highly organized preps, they may be tossed about or vaporized. This means that you may have to make your preps portable. So you will have to look at potential nuclear targets and fallout patterns for several scenarios, Urban areas and major cities are big targets. There is another issue, the radioactive particles absorbed by the canister itself becomes radioactive. There are other issues to take into consideration, most modern electronics may be damaged due to possible EMP effects AND gamma and x ray radiation damaging semiconductors in the electronics. Now, most nuclear strikes depicted in the media occur during daylight hours in the United States, what is to stop a nuclear warhead from going off in your local vicinity at 3am local time on a work night when everyone is asleep? That goes for any disaster really. It brings up a good question, what can a prepper do to prepare for catastrophic events that may occur while asleep? Here's the scenario, the electric grid goes down, as does the communication grid cell phones and landlines don't work, so even IF you leave your cellphone on there will be no warning. Now you might be able to circumvent this by using satellite communication devices......unless there is an EMP.

I noticed in the closeup of the filter it says it's made in the Czech Republic and he says it meets military specifications. Is our military getting their protective gear from Czechoslovakia?