[lbo-talk] The Pentagon Plans For The Apocalypse

[Dwayne Monroe]

[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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