Word: doomsdays
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Outpost Mission was but a fragment of a vast and secret doomsday plan devised by senior U.S. officials who spent their lives preparing for the unthinkable -- nuclear war. Their mission: to ensure the survival of the U.S. government, preserve order and salvage the economy in the aftermath of an atomic attack. Still others were charged with rescuing the nation's cultural heritage, from the Declaration of Independence to the priceless masterpieces of the National Gallery of Art. Now, with the end of the cold war, many doomsday operatives are breaking their silence for the first time. Confronted with the potential...
Like many a supposed doomsday weapon, the "debt bomb" has turned out to be a dud. That seems to be true in Latin America, anyway -- and that was where countries had piled up by far the greatest amount of the international debt that sparked despair a decade ago. Experts feared that the ious would crush economies in the Third World, while defaults on the loans would bring down big banks and cause a First World financial crisis...
...shortages of oil and the depletion of energy is not occurring. Instead of an oil crunch, we have an oil glut and population growth has slowed. Economic factors are part of all of these," said Allen Sinai, chief economist of The Boston Company, Inc. "The doomsday scene and devastating shortages predicted have never come to pass...
...just want to be sure how you feel now that you're back. And I remember what you told me up there and these things that air power can do.' He said, 'I'm more confident now than I was.' " Thus reassured, Bush never considered drawing up any "doomsday kind of scenario" to allow for a U.S. stalemate or retreat...
...with nuclear weapons but with human nature. The government officials designated to be evacuated in case of an emergency are not permitted to take their families with them, and many former officials say they would find it unimaginable to abandon husbands, wives or children. The issue has dogged the doomsday planners from the beginning. "I never took it very seriously," says Alexis Johnson, who was Deputy Under Secretary of State during the 1962 Cuban missile crisis. "It was an unrealistic thing, it seemed to me, that we'd all pick up at the ringing of a bell...