Aton Edwards is Executive Director of the NYC-based International Preparedness Network. He has trained thousands of New Yorkers and international civilians to help mitigate and respond to disasters and emergencies.
"The people must begin to prepare themselves. This book can help
them do it." -- Dr. Ken Alibek, author of Biohazard and former
director of Biopreparat, the Soviet Union biological weapons
program "It's a great thing that we have Aton Edwards to help
inform and prepare the public." -- Richard Preston, author of The
Hot Zone "Aton's work is tremendously important. What we need to do
for the next round is to get ourselves prepared.--Chuck D. "Mr.
Edwards is often called the city's foremost expert in personal
disaster preparation -- he has appeared on the "Today" show, has
taught his "Ready Up!" seminars to hundreds of participants with
partners like the Red Cross and has set up, as part of the National
Urban Self-Reliance and Preparedness Program, "incident command
centers" across New York, like the one he recently created for the
hip-hop pioneer Afrika Bambaataa in the Bronx." -New York Times
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