Programs of the Ark Two Community

The Ark Two Community Nuclear Holocaust Recovery Programs
* Introduction to Ark Two & Overall Purpose	Free Shelter Consultation & Nuclear Survival Info
** Agricultural Recovery	Radiological Monitoring Equipment
*** Economic Recovery	KI Information and Support
**** Refuge and Recovery Maps by State	Family Finding
***** Information Broadcast	Social Restoration

Purpose: Anyone is welcome to join the Ark Two Survival Community (located in Ontario, Canada) - so long as they do so before the catastrophe occurs. There is no charge for membership nor any restriction other than one be tolerant of the other members. However, it is only practical to be a member if one makes arrangement to live within about 20 miles because it would not otherwise likely be possible to get to the Ark (see pictures) at the time of catastrophe.

The purpose of the Ark Two Survival Community is to ameliorate the effects of a Nuclear War and to help reorganize society afterwards. The community founder believes that a nuclear war is inevitable and therefore in 1980 built the first phase of the Ark Two Refuge and has since expanded it and established the following programs.

The project has not been favorably received by the local and provincial governments. By 1990, when I stopped counting, it had been subject to over 30 court and commission appearances and the number has greatly increased in the last few years. Legal costs have mounted to hundreds of thousands of dollars. In 1999 there was a raid without warrants involving 7 police vehicles, 4 fire units and over 40 personnel and a K-9 unit, coincidentally caught on video tape by the CBC. Subsequently the facility was hounded with repeated government inspections. Some of the inspectors candidly admitted that it was just harassment, but because of wanting to keep their jobs they of course were not going to put that into writing. It is for this reason that one might refer to the facility as Waco North. A kinder, gentler Canadian version in that The Ark doesn't have any weapons and in that so far no one has been killed by the raiders.

The general public views the project as being operated by an eccentric (in the most favorable terms) or by a nut-case in what is the more usual expressed attitude. For the forty years in which I have built over two dozen shelters and have consulted on many dozens of others, the general ridicule has been extensive, to say the least. "Why do it then?", I have often been asked. Why not get a life, enjoy life and quit worrying about doomsday? The answer is that I don't see the purpose of life, nor happiness in life measured in how many rounds of golf I might play, but rather in service to my fellowman. While I don't have any "visions" or hear any "voices" this appears to me to be the service to which I have been called.

It is my hope that the programs described below will save tens of thousands of lives and will be useful in restoring society and making people's lives better after the nuclear holocaust.

Survival Education: For over 40 years the Ark Two Community founder has run a large variety of nuclear survival education programs. This has involved the printing and distribution of over 100,000 printed copies of FREE books and booklets. Now, with the Internet, some of these are available right at this web site to untold numbers of more people for free downloading.

In the process of trying to educate the public he has appeared on dozens of TV programs, dozens of radio shows, and has been written about in a great many magazine and newspaper articles. Many millions of persons have heard about his efforts.

The Ark Two Community has a librarian who has done a magnificient job of compiling on CD ROM, Microfilm, and in other media, thousands of volumes of practical and semi-technical descriptions of technology that we hope will be useful after a nuclear holocaust. We hope to be able to widely disseminate this information after the holocaust.

We have also assembled survival guidance material to handout at the door of the shelter to people for whom we have insufficient room in the shelter to accomodate. In December 2001 we completed a series of 4 videos, on such subjects as building an expedient shelter, which we hope to be able to show to the same group of people.

Radiological Monitoring: As a Radiological Scientific Officer I try to provide useful information to people about Radiation Detection Equipment. I have assisted many hundreds of people in obtaining thousands of pieces of equipment and in the past have given away hundreds of pieces. I simply no longer have the time to do that but we have stockpiled, tested and labeled hundreds of radiation detection devices (currently worth tens of thousands of dollars) that we will give away to those people that we have to turn away from the door of the shelter.

The plan is to train Radiological Instructors while in the shelter so that they can go out afterwards and train monitoring teams. Equipment has also been stockpiled for these teams.

KI Information and Support: A significant radiological defense is in the use of Potassium Iodide (KI) or one of its derivatives. For this purpose we store in our survival community many tens of thousands of dosages to provide for thousands of people in the month following a nuclear event. These we also plan to provide free to persons that we have to turn away from the shelter.

For those persons interested in making provision for their own families we recommend their contacting KI4U.

Agricultural Recovery: Key to the survival of society and humanity will be the restoration of Agriculture. This is one of the MOST IMPORTANT types of information that we provide and I highly recommend that you look at our webpages on agricultural recovery.

Among our shelter supplies we are storing multiple copies of proven plans for converting tractors to operate on wood combustion. With practically no farm horses or horse drawn implements remaining, and with there probably being low availability of petroleum fuels, knowledge of these and similar techniques could be very valuable. The plan would be to train mechanics locally who would then be dispersed to other agricultural locales to supervise local mechanics in the procedures.

We have also prepared a dozen radiological testing kits, for testing for radiation in food and water. We plan to send these to centralized locations, perhaps in each of the Canadian Provinces. Today it would cost over $5,000 each to replace these and in the future they may invaluable.

We have also made a point of storing seeds for our own facility, in sufficient quantity to supply a sizable community around us.

Economic Recovery: One of the most challenging issues will be the re-establishment of a functioning economy with monetary exchange. It is to this subject that we have been able to concentrate our particular skills in so much as I was trained as, and served as professor of Institutional Economics. Extensive study, although not known to the general public, was put into the subject by the US Government. Their summary conclusion was that the best bet was what we call LETS (Local Economy Trading Systems) although they did not go further and develop the concept in detail. That I have done, and have published the methodology for LETS Entitlement here on the web.

Our plan is after the holocaust to first establish a demonstration system and then train individuals in how to go to other communities and show them how to replicate it. As the local systems progress we would like to then facilitate exchange between them.

Refuge and Recovery Maps: For a number of years we maintained for each state of the United States, and for Provinces of Canada, lists of Intentional and Survival Communities, however, it became necessary as of the Oct. 2002 revision to discontinue the list in face of growing governmental and social opposition. For each of the states, we still show maps with potential targets as listed by FEMA.

It is our hope that after a nuclear holocaust we will be able to replace the current maps with maps showing the actual locations of destruction, information about the extensiveness of the destruction, and the pathways around those areas, as the pathways are developed. We would also hope to include information about surviving resources in the areas and that these maps will then be linked into our Family Finding Registry program.

Information Broadcast: From the outset it was planned that Ark Two would be a broadcast facility, and for this purpose it was built upon the highest point in Ontario. Originally it was equipped with four transmitters that the radio engineers said had the capability to reach both of the coasts and as far south as Florida. Over the years the transmitters deteriorated and a couple of years ago we scrapped them and they have yet to be replaced.

The idea would be to gather information by short-wave and other means and to then broadcast on a band that could be received by AM receivers in automobiles. Specific broadcast times would be established for times relevant to specific localities.

The content would consist of news, shared recovery experience and expertise, agricultural and medical advice, and survivor lists for various locales at specified times. To what degree we will be able to implement this plan will have to be determined at the time. In the meantime we have upgraded the generator for the transmitter and are making additional steps to continue this program.

Family Finding: One of the most difficult and yet desirable objectives of individuals will be the finding of missing members of their families. It is for this reason that we hope to establish THE REGISTRY using the above mentioned state (and provincial) maps with a hierarchial arrangement of T.E.A.M. Leaders to be established in each locality for this purpose. It was found that after the limited atomic blasts in Japan that families that were separated at the time of the blasts often had to go in different directions, and having no central known point to return to, often never found each other again, although there were occasionally happy reunifications decades later.

Using the maps, information gathering systems, and the facilities described under other topics, it is our hope to facilitate family finding. For this purpose our web pages were moved closer to the Internet Backbone (3 hops from the US Backbone whereas we were originally 14 hops) and on a fibre optic network with an ISP that has our own survival philosophy. The Internet was originally designed for nuclear survivability and depending upon how well it fulfills that purpose, or how rapidly it can be restored, then we hope to provide an information network where survivors can register for each of their localities, and seekers will be able to systematically look for family members.

Social Restoration: The humanitarian motivation behind Ark Two has universal bounds. What the future holds, none of us can know in detail, but the Ark Two founder is one of great optimism. Hopefully mankind will learn from its mistakes and will develop an attitude of universal charity and concern towards all of mankind, regardless of race, religion, culture, or other coincidental distinguishing feature. In this regards there are published here two series of web pages on two subjects that the founder considers to be very germane to establishing peace in the world. One series of pages is on The New World Order and the other series is on a Universal Auxiliary Language.