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...have a more intimate understanding of the doomsday scenario than Bernard T. Gallagher. Known to his friends as Bud, he was a Strategic Air Command pilot and served as director of Mount Weather for 25 years, until his retirement last March. A robust 70 years old, he wears a white cowboy hat, drives a hot-pink '65 Mustang convertible and is an unabashed patriot. As an "atomic-cloud sampler," he flew through the billowing mushrooms of 13 U.S. nuclear blasts in 1952 and 1953. To measure the radiation passing through him, he swallowed an X-ray plate coated with Vaseline...
...declares, "The person described on this card has essential emergency duties with the Federal Government. Request full assistance and unrestricted movement be afforded the person to whom this card is issued." Her card expired June 30, 1984, but she continues to have a standby role in the doomsday scenario. During the 1980s she took part in several relocation exercises at Mount Weather, where for days on end she practiced putting out her crisis publication on an aging manual typewriter. Says Girard: "I felt like I was in a 1950s movie...
...National Archives, which is seven blocks from the White House, the single most precious item would be the Declaration of Independence, followed by the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. Though the National / Archives building has a 55-ton steel-and-concrete vault on the premises, the scenario calls for the evacuation of these and other documents, probably by helicopter, to an underground facility, if there is adequate warning time. A second group of papers would leave the capital by truck sometime after the so- called Freedom Documents of Group I had reached safety. Among the Group II materials...
Because many of his centurions shared that uncertainty, Perot went on the Larry King Live show Friday night to urge them to "stay the course as a united team." To what end? Perot sketched a vague but grandiose scenario in which his movement would exert "enormous leverage" not only on the presidential candidates but on nominees for Congress as well. If those candidates fail to toe a line Perot has yet to define, his followers would exact retribution at the polls...
...that the Cold War is over, we Americans have to change our idea of what it means to be a leader of the free world. The familiar balance of powers scenario is no longer accurate, and therefore American greatness may not be synonymous with having a finger in every...