[Milsurplus] Cold War Nostalgia

[J. Forster]

In fact, as I remember, the Russians were very worried about ABMs, and
considered it 'destabilizing'.

Looking at it from the other side, the Russions had (and may still have)
massive 'civil defense' facilities. The US considered this
'destabilizing', with good reason.

Both the Russians and the Chinese seriously planned to survive after a
nuke war.

The US civil defense program has been a joke since the 1960s.

Question: Were those in charge of nuclear weapons chosen/trained to follow
orders without question, or what? ie: If the NCA said 'launch' would they
have ever even considered not pushing the button?

YMMV,

-John

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> Back in the days of Reagan I worked for people who were tasked with the
> idea of a survivable nuclear war. They were developing liners,
> decontamination equipment and air locks for use in military tents, or
> Tempers as they called them. This included field testing and at that time
> I started to feel that about the only ones who would survive an all-out
> nuclear or biological exchange would be the military. This work branched
> into other areas like survivable communications networks and lots of other
> projects. I always thought that this work would somehow undermine the
> concepts of MAD and be a destabilizing thing, maybe something like the ABM
> stuff in the sixties.
> Anyway the question I had was that I know the missile silo crews and SSBN
> crews are all drilled to perfection on deploying and possibly firing there
> weapons but what happened after the weapons were away? Were you supposed
> to just crawl out of the silo and go home? Was there ever a post
> apocalypse command and control procedure?
>
> Ray F
>
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