Kurt Saxon (born Donald Eugene Sisco; March 6, 1932 – August 16, 2021) was an American writer, radio host, survivalist and the author of The Poor Man's James Bond, a series of books on improvised weapons and munitions.
During the 1960s, Saxon drifted into and out of several political organizations and new religious movements, including the American Nazi Party,[1] the John Birch Society, the Minutemen, and the Church of Scientology.
According to newspaper accounts, he suggested police and "concerned citizens" use bombs to wipe out "leftists," and recommended that student demonstrators be machine-gunned in the streets.
He claims to have coined the term "survivalism"[3] to refer to making preparations for a future collapse of society or a major disaster.
[8] During the early 1990s when the American militia movement was at its peak in the United States, Saxon published a short-lived magazine called U.S.