"Washington's secret Doomsday plans"

Garrett Graff, 30 July 2017

http://theweek.com/articles/714780/washingtons-secret-doomsday-plans

"Attorney General Ed Meese arrived at Andrews Air Force Base before dawn on June 18, 1986, one of dozens of officials and staff from the Pentagon, State Department, White House, and intelligence community streaming onto the base in the Maryland suburbs, ready for nuclear war. Those meeting Meese knew the attorney general was stressed that morning, since Chief Justice Warren Burger had announced his resignation the day before. One official at Andrews looked at Meese and joked, "First a Supreme Court resignation, and now America's in a nuclear war. You're having a bad day.""

Wow!

"The National Program Office, run by Vice President George H.W. Bush, gobbled up billions of dollars in classified funds planning for Doomsday. Building off an Eisenhower-era plan to appoint private-sector czars to oversee post-disaster response, the National Program Office established a top-secret list of former public officials who would be called upon in the event key office-holders were killed. Known as TREETOP, the plan outlined the military aides, war plans, and procedures that would make up the "Presidential Successor Support System," or PS3 for short."

WoW!

"Today, another generation of Doomsday planners are settling into life inside these bunkers, which are still staffed 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. While some new facilities have been built in the past two decades, the majority of the government's plans to preserve itself and our nation during an attack in the 21st century still rely upon facilities built with slide rules."

Excerpted from Raven Rock: The Story of the U.S. Government's Secret Plan to Save Itself — While the Rest of Us Die (Simon & Schuster, 2017). Reprinted with permission.

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