In 1963, Kennedy admin. contemplated 3,500' deep underground bunker to withstand multiple direct hits of 200-300 MT.pic.twitter.com/CgheGbVnnH
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@wellerstein I'm trying to decipher the handwritten note top right. As best I can tell, it reads:pic.twitter.com/CgJ62gX6xp
@SchwartzCNS Here are those redacted lines, which I removed by... magic. (NSA has a different copy, no handwriting.)pic.twitter.com/WjbfsoOmik
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@wellerstein Great! Was speculating with@scottcarson1957 about what was under there. I guessed Mt. Weather (aka High Point) and Greenbrier. -
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@scottcarson1957 Clearly banking on low accuracy, non-penetrating Soviet missiles. -
@wellerstein@scottcarson1957 Even so, what survives topside after "multiple direct hits of 200 to 300 MT weapons bursting at the surface"? -
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@scottcarson1957 Not very much — even if we were just talking about 100 Mt weapons:http://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/?t=eec212f04dc151a5b2ab5a0826678407 … -
@wellerstein@scottcarson1957 Right. So in the end, DUCC made about as much sense as "Duck and Cover." -
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@scottcarson1957 I think "Duck and Cover" actually made much more sense in its context. Cheap way to save a lot of lives.
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@wellerstein It's interesting that Congress's bunker at the Greenbrier wasn't considered part of DC's "Command and Control Complex." 1/2Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@wellerstein I get that it's not part of military command structure, but seems strange to omit it entirely, as if Congress had no role. 2/2Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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