Was watching Jericho Serial and they talked of a preplan made bgy the 50's of a Post atomic plan , anyone knows anything of this?

Yeah, I've got a book thats "The Untold Plans of the US Governments reaction to a Nuclear Holocaust", it's not what I thought it would be, but it is interesting none the less. Like for instance, the American government had no real plan's for what they would do for the civilian population, only Government officials. That's what most of the book tells you about, but the way they planned to go through with it is strange and sort of sad for Americans I would guess.

Any link?

You may be interested in this, although how useful
l it is may be questionable:

http://www.survivenuclearwar.com/literature/Recovery%20from%20Nuclear%20Attack.pdf

I would think its sad for the enitre world. Nuclear war would likely mean the end of the human race (and world). Then, even if the rest of the world didn't suffer as much as the U.S. and whichever country they're at war with, the U.S. is still the largest food and technology supplier in the world, espceially whenever that book was written or in the Fallout universe.

One America, one Enclave, now and forever.

I don't find this surprising really, as in the 1950's there was not much anyone could really do in an all-out nuclear scenario with the Sovients - the catastrophe would nullify any plans to respond as most of the resources would be lost, burned and not available to implement plans.

Its like the point of Einstein's famous phrase about the weapons of WWIII and WWIV; it really doesn't matter which brand of nuclear or biologic bombs are used in a WWIII - the earth and its societies will be so utterly destroyed that nothing, "civilized" will remain. Any plans made to save anyone after nuclear war are pointless.

You don't have to feel sad for American's, as the success of our nuclear deterrent cannot be denied in any corner - there was no WWIII holocost of nuclear fire, and very little probability of one starting in the future (but who knows). Either way, with 1,700+ nuclear bombs ready to go - the deterrent is still viable, though I think the, "Bridge of Ships" between China and America are a far-more effective deterrent at stopping war between our countries than a vast array of useless, expensive nuclear bombs whose only purpose in life is Not to be used!

M

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The book doesn't mention the rest of the world. Its all about what the US Government had planned, which was nothing (Sorry, but its true). And the book goes through the whole Cold War era's.

the USSR had much better continuity of operations plans for civilian and military, russia spent billions making huge undegroung city sized bunkers,, underneath most of there major cities, thats a major reason the USSR bankrupted its self.

Ok, so i can't find this book, or mention of it, but I can find several articles that tend to question this. I suppose it boils down to what you consider "real plans". There were certainly plans to continue government, on all levels (not just Federal) According the the Wiki article, there were, at first, resistance to evacuating cities, but after an experimental drill in 1955 at Portland, OR, plans for major cities were developed. An ICBM attack, due to short warning times, makes evacuation impossible.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_civil_defense

I doubt that. The economic collapse of the USSR had much more to do with the failure of central planning to understand the needs of a modern economy, and that started to catch up with them in the 1070's. As Glasnost took hold and the government lost control of the media, the people finally started seeing how bad things had become. Poverty, corruption, obsolete infastructure, all compared to the West. When the Warsaw pact countries started falling, nothing could stop it.

Im not saying its the main reason the USSR collapsed the main reason was they spent all the money on arms for a war that never happened and there was no global uprisng of socialist masses, but it did spend billions on supplies and bunkers for civillian populace in th event of a nuclear war

The UK was http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7382750.stm back in the '50s for the grim realities of a nuclear war.


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No we wont it says the uk could not maintain tea supplies, were f***ed.