Word: doomsdays
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...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...
...great artifacts of the cold war -- remains at the ready. Known as Mount Weather, it is a Strangelovian relic of yesteryear intended to shelter the President and other top U.S. officials in case of nuclear war. The 33-year-old facility is manned by a second generation of doomsday planners, men and women who are reassessing their mission and that of the massive bunker they have maintained through more than three decades of nuclear threat...
...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...
...nation from the Oval Office on Friday evening, the President was proposing nothing less than a new set of guidelines for nuclear peace in the post-cold war world. He was, for once, ahead of the curve, demonstrating real leadership in his capacity as Commander in Chief of the doomsday arsenal...
...time as a free-lance writer, an editor and a public relations executive. In addition to his Boring Institute duties, he's the founder/president of The National Anxiety Center, a watchdog organization dedicated to ferreting out cases of "the media scaring the hell out of people with stories about doomsday asteroids and poisoned apples and global warning." (If you're a little hazy on the concept, like I am, Caruba will explain it tonight on the Ron Reagan Show...