[R-390] On The Beach; Endgame

[mikea]

On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 10:22:01PM -0500, William J. Neill wrote:

[snip]

> I wrote two research papers during class and both were part of a DOE  
> project the class took on and the papers are not gonna be discussed.   
> However, I was able to find 40 years worth of US targeting plans for  
> "the enemy" and was aghast at the casualness with which, by 1983, the  
> so-called "SIOP" (Special Instructions of the President) called for  
> the outright death of 60,000,000 million people in Eastern Europe,  
> Eurasia, Russia, and China as well as the consequent destruction of  
> all economic activity with the stated goal of permanently rendering  
> such lands uninhabitable.  Of course, the US planners accepted as  
> many as 200 nuclear devices impacting upon CONUS and felt that civil  
> defense preparedness would assure survival of the bulk of the  
> population.

When I was read in, it was "Single Integrated Operational Plan". Amazing
how names change. 

McNamara: "General, you don't have a war plan; what you have is a kind
of horrible spasm!"

-- 
Mike Andrews, W5EGO
mikea at mikea.ath.cx
Tired old sysadmin