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According to the Administration scenario, the President and key advisers would prepare to be whisked aboard the "doomsday plane," a 747 specially fitted to serve as the nation's Emergency Airborne Command Post. Meanwhile, citizens would pack their cars with food, water, clothes, tools and important papers (Social Security card, credit cards and a will), city dwellers would head out into the countryside to take shelter in predesignated buildings. Those unable to leave would be herded into public fallout shelters. Two weeks later, survivors would come out and begin to rebuild society, guided by plans for food rationing, banking...
...escapades in Afghanistan and Poland. The bottom line of all this--more nuclear weapons that are increasingly complex and hence more prone to accidental detonation. This is the stuff of dissent, of passion, of fear. And these are the supporting actors, the backdrop and the props for the ultimate scenario of the absurd...
...wake of the Communist victory, obliterated by the sinking junks of boat people, obliterated by the stories of "reeducation camps," obliterated with the recognition that at least some of the men who surrounded Ho Chi Minh are unreconstructed Stalinists. But what about the conclusion that Podhoretz draws from the scenario? Vietnam, he says, was an "act of imprudent idealism whose moral soundness has been, overwhelmingly vindicated by the hideous consequences of our defeat." Given the boat people, he says, the American effort to save the South from Communism was correct. But he is wrong...
...TIME these three spend together leads to their violent demise is revealed through the tribunal. The judge, played by Josh Mutton, develops the scenario through questioning various characters. None of the witness roles requires much depth, and each is adequately presented. Mutton shows a dutiful judge whose concern for preserving the peace condones the brusqueness of the soldiers, the matter-of-factness of the doctors...
...then, should the U.S. feel it needs or even wants more nuclear weapons, whoever might be said to have that elusive lead? Because Reagan apparently has in mind a ghastly scenario that is now possible, at least in theory. It goes this way: improvements in missile accuracy now make it conceivable that the U.S.S.R., by launching a mere 200 of its multiple-warhead missiles, could destroy nearly all the 1,052 U.S. land-based missiles in their silos. The U.S. would then not be able to take out the remaining Soviet missiles, especially since submarine-launched missiles...