[lbo-talk] The Pentagon Plans For The Apocalypse

Dwayne Monroe idoru345 at yahoo.com
Mon Jul 7 07:29:49 PDT 2003


[Much of this is the painting of a new, information tech gloss on old ideas. Even so, the insistence that nuclear conflict can be managed - if only a theoretical plaything at the moment - could lead down dangerously stupid paths of action.]

A New Nuclear Age Planners design technology to withstand the apocalypse

By William M. Arkin

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But the real innovation is the 69 "transportable terminals" small enough to be set up, operated and maintained by one person. These communications terminals will be designed to "reliably operate in pre- through post-nuclear environments," according to an official "statement of objectives" for the project. A December 2002 "operational requirements document" outlines how, as tension levels increase, mobile support teams would be sent with these terminals to secret locations. In the event of nuclear war, the mobile teams would restaff command posts, bombers and tankers. They would rendezvous with submarines and transport new nuclear weapons to surviving units capable of delivering them.

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full at

http://www.latimes.com/la-op-arkin6jul06,0,1445868.story

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