Nuclear War - Annie Jacobsen

[Ernie Nemeth]

We have to play this suicidal ideology out to its bitter end in order to forever erase it from our reality.

We were removed from the realm of animals with our big brains. Men are born into a tyranny of degree, with no way out and no other options but to pay back the debt they owe for being born or suffer the consequences of the man-made dilemma of poverty (the punishment for non-compliance). We cannot 'go back to nature' because other humans already own all of it. We are squatters on our own lands, unless we play the game (costing about 30000 - 40000 hours of toil paid for in sweat and blood equity to our overlords).

Our technologies and our systems are inferior to the task set them and will never compensate for the avarice, greed, and apathy of the human race.

Our big brains and our small hearts will be our destruction - and we deserve what is coming. In fact, it can be said that we wish for what's coming - without understanding the inevitability of our actions and non-actions. We want this because we will not grow up and act like the big brain animals that we are.

We are divorced from nature not because we have outgrown it, but because we have lost connection to what is truly important - both to human and animal alike.

It is time for a reset. It is time for us to die to the lie so that we can finally be free of this made-up, topsy-turvy world.

We do not live in the world of effects - we die there.

Our world is the world of cause - where we live forever.


Bring it on...

[onawah]

RT: WEST REALLY WANTS EVERYONE TO BELIEVE RUSSIA PLANNING NUCLEAR ATTACK, BUT WHY?
https://forbiddenknowledgetv.net/rt-...ttack-but-why/
6/9/24

(It would not surprise me if the Chinese Communist Party's anti-US disinfo propaganda campaign is behind this. The world continues to underestimate their extreme psychopathy. )

"Moscow Has Never Said It Is Ready to “Push the Red Button,” the President Has Said

Moscow has never been the first to resort to aggressive nuclear rhetoric, President Vladimir Putin told a question-and-answer panel at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF) on Friday. The nation’s nuclear doctrine only allows the use of atomic weapons in “exceptional cases” and the current situation is not one, he added.

When asked whether Russia should “climb the nuclear escalation ladder faster,” Putin replied that Moscow has never initiated such escalation. Russia “has never said” it was “ready to push the red button,” the president stated, adding that Moscow has always called on other nations to treat such issues “seriously” but was instead accused of nuclear saber-rattling.

“We are not brandishing [nuclear weapons],” Putin said.

Russia’s nuclear doctrine clearly states that atomic weapons can only be used in the face of a “threat to the sovereignty and territorial integrity” of the country, the president stated. “I do not believe that it is the case now.”

He warned, however, that changes to the doctrine “are not ruled out.”

The president expressed hope that “it will never come” to a nuclear exchange between Moscow and the West. He said Russia possesses an effective early-warning system and a vast nuclear arsenal, including tactical nuclear weapons, which are three or four times more powerful than the bombs dropped by the US on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The EU lacks both and only the US has comparable capacity, he added.

Moscow “has no reasons to even think about” using nuclear weapons, according to Putin. Russia vastly outguns its enemy when it comes to tanks and aviation, the president said. Ammunition production in Russia has also increased by a multiple of 20 amid the ongoing conflict, he added. Putin then called on Russian officials to not even “touch upon” the subject of nuclear weapons unless absolutely necessary. "


Source: https://www.rumble.com/video/v4qrqb0/?pub=ijro7

[onawah]

Europa The Last Battle (2017)
Full Film Part 1
From: newsletter@forbiddenknowledgetv.net
https://forbiddenknowledgetv.net/eur...l-film-part-1/

(This addendum message is from Alexandra Bruce of Forbidden Knowledge, regarding the info in the post #42 just above, which also originated with her.
I was able to hunt down the Rumble link, which is usually easier to find in her articles, so no harm done there, but the following commentary, which was not in the first post, should not be missed.
This probably belongs just as much in the Internet Censorship thread as much as here...)

"A few weeks ago, the backend of my website became corrupted and a new HTML editor was installed that literally does not allow you to see what you're doing (or deleting) half the time. It's like flying blind. It is hellacious.

So, I apologize that this morning's newsletter went out without a video embedded on my site and also with some glaring typos, such as the 'Communist Manifesto' being published in 1948 - one hundred years after the fact!

I'm so busy struggling with the inteface that I can't properly see and edit what I'm writing. This is compounded by my new mass email service that I began using a month ago, whose backend is similarly more like an obstacle course than a streamlined way to get your message out (like Substack).

Again, I apologize for my recent technological struggles. It's such a delicate and important topic and I'm frustrated that this missive got screwed-up, so I'm re-sending with corrections.

###

I have largely steered clear from the topics of Nazis and WWII, because it is nightmare that I prefered to ignore but one that I've come to realize I cannot continue to ignore.

So, I'm getting my feet wet, so to speak by watching this film – and just the first ten minutes of this is like falling off a building!

This 10-part film series, written, directed and produced pseudonymously by Tobias Bratt in Sweden received an IMDb score of 7.4, despite IMDb's withering review and the scathing pronouncements of Wikipedia, calling it a:

"Neo-Nazi propaganda film...that promotes antisemitic conspiracy theories, including Holocaust denial...

"The film promotes various antisemitic conspiracy theories, claiming that Karl Marx was part of a centuries-long plan by Jews to spread communism and take over the world[1][14] and that Jews control the world's money supply[7] and are conspiring to engineer the downfall of the white race by encouraging immigration and interracial relationships.[15]

Due to these kinds of write-ups, I've shunned the 'Europa' series like the plague since its release in 2017 but suddenly, so many people recommended or referred this film to me, that I had to take a look.

This film claims that in 1862, Moses Hess, aka the "Communist Rabbi" formulated the first written principles of communism in the book 'Rome and Jerusalem', in which he laid the foundations for a Jewish nationalist movement called Zionism.

The film claims that Moses Hess was also a close friend and collaborator of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels and that he assisted them in their work with the 'Communist Manifesto' of 1848 and that Moses Hess' grandparents were related to the Rothschild family through marriage and that the Rothschild family partially funded Karl Marx, while he wrote the 'The Communist Manifesto'.

Here is a snippet of the film's transcript:

'The Communist Manifesto' laid out the ideology of communism. Its key points include a central bank with monopoly on credit, abolition of countries and nationalities, abolition of the traditional family consisting of a man, a woman, and children, abolition of private property, which means no rights for the people, to make it impossible for people to earn a livelihood by introducing heavy taxation, confiscation of property, abolition of the right of inheritance, a communist state, a communist monopoly on credit and banking, the media in total control of the communists. Women should not focus on family and children anymore.

In their own words, communism wants to do away with the status of women as mere instrument of production. Abolition of Christianity and Morality. Marx refers to this totalitarian scheme as dictatorship of the proletariat, and his cult followers promote violence, class envy, hostility towards free markets, family, business, tradition in Christianity.

Today they are instrumental in the destabilization of Europe. Marx also openly encouraged genocide against Slavs, referring to them as "racial trash and that they must perish in a revolutionary holocaust."

- Voiceover, 'Europa: The Last Battle - Part 1'
Well, it seems pretty obvious that the Communist Manifesto is playing out across America and the world today, from the Federal Reserve Bank, to the war in Gaza, to the WHO, to Drag Queen Story Hour, to the genocide of the Slavic Ukrainians and Russians.

There's a kind of secret Masonry that some call the Jewish Mafia or Khazarian Mafia but it is by no means strictly Jewish in composition. Rockefellers are Khazarian Mafia, as were JP Morgan, Andrew Carnegie and other non-Jews.

Although I am not Jewish by blood or by faith, I consider myself Jewish-adjacent. I have multiple members of my family intermarried with Jews, myself included (formerly). In short, I love Jews, so the revelations of this film are highly disturbing to me

Obviously, not all Jews are members of the Khazarian Mafia, the same way that not all WASPs are Freemasons and not all Italians are in La Cosa Nostra.

Therefore, please do not misinterpret this post and call me an anti-Semite, because it's the opposite of what's true and it is the opposite of the intent, which is to try to make sense of what's happening today.

Let's start with the usage of the term "Semitic", which is Satanic, on many levels – and thankfully, in disuse. I need to study who coined this usage. A quick look at Britannica says a "German agitator" named Wilhelm Marr coined the term in 1879.

"Semitic" is not a racial designation. The word, "Semitic" refers to a linguistic group, of which Arabic is by far the most widely-spoken language and the third most widespread official language, after English and French.

The usage of the word "Semitic", when compounded with the prefix "anti" to exclusively signify "Jewish" ignores the 422 million Arabic speakers compared to 10 million Hebrew speakers, worldwide. Therefore, the term "anti-Semitic" is an antiquated, misleading term, in need of an update.

The World War II usages of "Aryan" and "Hebrew" are similarly completely bogus, incorrect designations that intentionally twist their original meanings.

The original significance of the word, "Aryan" is manifold, including the self-designation of Iranians. Its meaning is at the heart of the most widely-spoken linguistic family in the world.

Archaeological, genomic and historic evidence show that the linguistic homeland of the proto-Indo-European language was in modern-day Ukraine and Southern Russia, where, it just so happens, US Taxpayer bombs are now dropping (against the will of the American people, it should be noted).

During the Bronze Age (ca. 5000-3500 BC), the proto-Indo-Europeans of the Pontic Steppe were skilled horsemen and they rapidly spread out from their homeland, East and West, mixing with the locals and giving rise to Greek, Latin, the Romance-, Germanic-, Slavic- and Indo-Aryan languages, among others.

In a linguistic sense, most Europeans, Persians, Pakistanis and Northern Indians (plus Albanians, Armenians, Kurds and others) are the offspring of these Bronze Age Indo-Europeans who originally hailed from what is now Ukraine.

However, one thing "Aryan" does not mean is "Nordic" and it never did, that is, until World War II, when this new usage was coined by somebody, deliberately shifting the term "Aryan" to designate "Nordic". I wonder who that Nazi somebody was?

As for "Hebrew", this term designates a language, not a people. It would be like calling Puerto Ricans "Spanish". "Semitic" is a linguistic family, "Hebrew" is a language within the Semitic linguistic family. That is what these two words actually mean. The ancient people who spoke Hebrew were the Israelites.

While I believe that the creators of this film sought to be truthful, in my opinion, they're overly obsessed with the Jewish component of this anti-human conspiracy and they've failed to grasp the Black Nobility aspect, which I believe is dictating much or all of it (without getting into the Lower Astral, interdimensional, demonic aspects of this saga – we'll leave that to Kerry Cassidy for now!)

I don't like the tone of this presentation but the facts are accurate and it's pretty gob-smacking to watch this film today, as we witness the controlled demolition of our civilization, in favor of the World Economic Forum's transhuman, "You Will Own Nothing and You Will Eat Ze Bugs", exploding electric cars, 6G LoWPAN genocide model, all of it essentially scripted 176 years ago in 'The Communist Manifesto'."
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Bruce posted the link again for "Europa the Last Battle" at the end of this message, but it's in the post just above so I will not post it here.
This whole discussion makes me think of the passage in the Book of Revelations: "Message to the Church in Philadelphia" which seems to apply quite well to the Khazarians.
From:https://biblehub.com/kjv/revelation/3.htm

"7And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write; These things saith he that is holy, he that is true, he that hath the key of David, he that openeth, and no man shutteth; and shutteth, and no man openeth;

8I know thy works: behold, I have set before thee an open door, and no man can shut it: for thou hast a little strength, and hast kept my word, and hast not denied my name. 9Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee. 10Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth. 11Behold, I come quickly: hold that fast which thou hast, that no man take thy crown. 12Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God: and I will write upon him my new name. 13He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches."

[Ernie Nemeth]

I agree with Onawah about the tone, and yes, the facts are accurate.

Imagine, from this perspective, how some people must feel now that both Russia and Israel are at war.


I can only say what I believe:
You cannot hold fear and love in your mind at the same time.

I choose love.


I cannot rewrite the biological imperative to fear my demise or anyone else's, but I do not have to entertain the notion of the finality of death.

Until Thanatos comes for me, I've no time for fear.
I hope in that final moment I have the presence of mind to laugh in death's face while I salute and declare:
"See ya next time around, chump!"

[Mari]

Posted by Ernie Nemeth (here)
I agree with Onawah about the tone, and yes, the facts are accurate.

Imagine, from this perspective, how some people must feel now that both Russia and Israel are at war.


I can only say what I believe:
You cannot hold fear and love in your mind at the same time.

I choose love.


I cannot rewrite the biological imperative to fear my demise or anyone else's, but I do not have to entertain the notion of the finality of death.

Until Thanatos comes for me, I've no time for fear.
I hope in that final moment I have the presence of mind to laugh in death's face while I salute and declare:
"See ya next time around, chump!"

'War'.....the incessant chatter and media saturation of 'war' is usually the very last resort of those of the cabal who know that their grip on control is fading fast and desperately need to distract the populace with the threat of The Big One. Putin sees this for what it is - the West hurling all it's toys out of its crib.

Yes, choose Love over fear. That is our biggest weapon against the insanity being played out.

[grapevine]

Joe Rogan Experience #2174 - Annie Jacobsen

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=EqCpT3bLgBM

(2:50:41)
Annie Jacobsen is still doing the rounds with her book and you'd think surely everything's been said in the last few interviews in this thread, but no, because of course Joe Rogan asks different questions. Does anyone here have a copy of the book and would they recommend it?
If we can get through this very difficult period without going nuclear then there MUST be legislation put in place so that it can never ever be used.

Post watch:
Yes, the conversation's so very interesting and covers a lot of different ground. Recommended viewing.

Annie Jacobsen's book is available on Spotify Premium as an audio book.

[T Smith]

Posted by ExomatrixTV (here)

Posted by Bill Ryan (here)
Over an hour in now, and I do HIGHLY recommend this.

Some more movie references. Very relevant and not at all trivial, as the themes are well-thought out and instructive (and extremely well-produced and acted, too.)

• Fail Safe (both versions, 1964 and 2000), about a nuclear strike against Moscow caused by a system error.
• Crimson Tide (1995), about a mutiny on a US nuclear submarine over whether or not to launch missiles against Russia after a malfunction leaves the launch order ambiguous.
• The Sum of All Fears (2002), about a rogue nuke suitcase bomb that the US has assumed Russia is responsible for.
• The War Game (1966) and Threads (1984), considered by many as the two most terrifying and realistic docudramas ever made.

• I watched: "The Day After" Movie at school in 1984 when I was 18 years old, I remember it had a huge impact on me and my other classmates:
• wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_After
  

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=TOPaaHSjMcw

You can change the video quality settings to HD720p

This one is a classic 80s nuclear war flick reflecting the collective consciousness of the time, which I never watched...until today.

What's interesting about this film, today, is that it seems the public is much more dumbed down to the horrific reality of a nuclear conflict today, unlike how we all beheld the horror of the psychopaths who had us on the verge of nuclear holocaust in the 80s when this film was made.

Let's consider the statement in the credits of this film:

...The catastrophic events you have just witnessed are, in all likelihood, less severe than the destruction that would actually occur in the event of a full nuclear strike against the United States. It is hoped that the images of this film will inspire the nations of this earth, their peoples and leaders, to find the means to avert this fateful day...


The problem is--which I feel all of us who understand the nature of what we are facing here on planet Earth--is the Powers That Be, who have the means, ability, and power to trigger such a global catastrophe, are not inspired "to avert this fateful day..." They are inspired to make it happen. That's the truth most of us do not want to believe, nor grasp when tackling the solutions to avert this from happening.

[Bill Ryan]

Bumping this thread with a striking conversation just published on The Duran between Glenn Diesen, Alexander Mercouris and Theodore Postol.

This is Postol's Wiki page, and it's well worth reading:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Postol

I say 'conversation', but the entire first hour is an earnest, impassioned, data-rich, one-person presentation by Postol, whose depth of technical understanding of the current dangers of nuclear escalation is such that Annie Jacobson would just sit silently and take notes.

Postol speaks as if he's just been given his one and only chance to say something important, hoping upon hope that someone in the US administration might just possibly hear it. "I'm so concerned, I'm beside myself", he says.

For anyone who's watched some of Annie Jacobsen's video interviews posted on this thread, and already has an awareness of some of the issues, this might be very thought-provoking indeed.

Toward a Second Cuban Missile Crisis?

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=RH7LT1bIdpY

[grapevine]

Posted by Bill Ryan (here)
Bumping this thread with a striking conversation just published on The Duran between Glenn Diesen, Alexander Mercouris and Theodore Postol.

This is Postol's Wiki page, and it's well worth reading:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Postol

I say 'conversation', but the entire first hour is an earnest, impassioned, data-rich, one-person presentation by Postol, whose depth of technical understanding of the current dangers of nuclear escalation is such that Annie Jacobson would just sit silently and take notes.

Postol speaks as if he's just been given his one and only chance to say something important, hoping upon hope that someone in the US administration might just possibly hear it. "I'm so concerned, I'm beside myself", he says.

For anyone who's watched some of Annie Jacobsen's video interviews posted on this thread, and already has an awareness of some of the issues, this might be very thought-provoking indeed.

Toward a Second Cuban Missile Crisis?

snipped video

We're in a very frightening scenario where the people in charge are not only psychopathic but woefully ignorant of basic knowledge and intelligence as well. A little off topic maybe but the same scenario situation is apparent in every field atm, and I would hazard a guess that Diversity-Based Hiring has an awful lot to do with it.

[Moemers]

Posted by Bill Ryan (here)
Bumping this thread with a striking conversation just published on The Duran between Glenn Diesen, Alexander Mercouris and Theodore Postol.

This is Postol's Wiki page, and it's well worth reading:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Postol

I say 'conversation', but the entire first hour is an earnest, impassioned, data-rich, one-person presentation by Postol, whose depth of technical understanding of the current dangers of nuclear escalation is such that Annie Jacobson would just sit silently and take notes.

Postol speaks as if he's just been given his one and only chance to say something important, hoping upon hope that someone in the US administration might just possibly hear it. "I'm so concerned, I'm beside myself", he says.

For anyone who's watched some of Annie Jacobsen's video interviews posted on this thread, and already has an awareness of some of the issues, this might be very thought-provoking indeed.

Toward a Second Cuban Missile Crisis?

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=RH7LT1bIdpY

thanks for sharing this, dude. i've been going between this video and The Astrology Podcast's forecast for August a little bit at a time each and then going immediately to my garden and just standing there bare-foot for a bit.

this is a pretty fascinating conversation

[mountain_jim]

https://x.com/RealAlexJones/status/1820073102014894164

Alex Jones
@RealAlexJones
This video perfectly illustrates what’s happening to Western nations as the population continues to sleep.

[Bill Ryan]

Posted by Moemers (here)

Posted by Bill Ryan (here)
Bumping this thread with a striking conversation just published on The Duran between Glenn Diesen, Alexander Mercouris and Theodore Postol.

This is Postol's Wiki page, and it's well worth reading:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Postol

I say 'conversation', but the entire first hour is an earnest, impassioned, data-rich, one-person presentation by Postol, whose depth of technical understanding of the current dangers of nuclear escalation is such that Annie Jacobson would just sit silently and take notes.

Postol speaks as if he's just been given his one and only chance to say something important, hoping upon hope that someone in the US administration might just possibly hear it. "I'm so concerned, I'm beside myself", he says.

For anyone who's watched some of Annie Jacobsen's video interviews posted on this thread, and already has an awareness of some of the issues, this might be very thought-provoking indeed.

Toward a Second Cuban Missile Crisis?

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=RH7LT1bIdpY

thanks for sharing this, dude. i've been going between this video and The Astrology Podcast's forecast for August a little bit at a time each and then going immediately to my garden and just standing there bare-foot for a bit.

this is a pretty fascinating conversation

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At the close of his personal update video for yesterday, Alexander Mercouris said that this interview with Theodore (Ted) Postol was one of the two interviews he'd ever done which appalled him and shocked him to the very core.

[Bruce G Charlton]

wrt:

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=RH7LT1bIdpY

Much as I value the work of Alexander Mercouris and the others on this video; I wonder at what point he and they will realize that this kind of geopolitical policy decision is neither driven by ignorance nor by insanity - but is one of many deliberate and strategic attempts designed to produce exactly the nightmare nuclear war scenario, that the policy (very probably) would produce, if implemented?

[Bill Ryan]

Just a reminder.

[Le Chat]

Posted by Miller (here)
Does anyone here have a copy of the book and would they recommend it?

Yes, I bought the book after listening to her on some podcast or other several months ago.

And I can definitely recommend it...

[Bill Ryan]

Posted by Miller (here)
Does anyone here have a copy of the book and would they recommend it?

https://avalonlibrary.net/ebooks/Ann...lear%20War.pdf

[grapevine]

Posted by Bill Ryan (here)

Posted by Moemers (here)

Posted by Bill Ryan (here)
Bumping this thread with a striking conversation just published on The Duran between Glenn Diesen, Alexander Mercouris and Theodore Postol.

This is Postol's Wiki page, and it's well worth reading:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Postol

I say 'conversation', but the entire first hour is an earnest, impassioned, data-rich, one-person presentation by Postol, whose depth of technical understanding of the current dangers of nuclear escalation is such that Annie Jacobson would just sit silently and take notes.

Postol speaks as if he's just been given his one and only chance to say something important, hoping upon hope that someone in the US administration might just possibly hear it. "I'm so concerned, I'm beside myself", he says.

For anyone who's watched some of Annie Jacobsen's video interviews posted on this thread, and already has an awareness of some of the issues, this might be very thought-provoking indeed.

Toward a Second Cuban Missile Crisis?

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=RH7LT1bIdpY

thanks for sharing this, dude. i've been going between this video and The Astrology Podcast's forecast for August a little bit at a time each and then going immediately to my garden and just standing there bare-foot for a bit.

this is a pretty fascinating conversation

~~~

At the close of his personal update video for yesterday, Alexander Mercouris said that this interview with Theodore (Ted) Postol was one of the two interviews he'd ever done which appalled him and shocked him to the very core.

I just watched the video all the way through, and even though none of it was surprising it was still shocking, because we’re unable to remove these incompetent and ignorant people who are playing chicken with everybody on this planet's lives. I was reminded of the daily Covid updates on TV when The Three Stooges (aka, Boris Johnson, Patrick Vallance and Chris Whitty) would spout “Trust the Science” at us, which phrase will remain forever blighted. And the Nuclear Issue is clearly headed the same way.

According to Wiki, The Rt Honourable John Healey, UK’s current Minister of Defence, has held various ministerial positions in Housing, the Treasury and Health. Like other Ministers he’s merely a spokesperson, who’s spoon-fed speeches by a team of Civil Servants. Taking The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy as an example, if you traced the paper trail back to source, you’d likely find a hapless year-out student in the library/archives office, complete with earphones and a spliff, who’s under the impression that the War in Ukraine is a remake of “Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)”. It’s not really funny at all. I bought a book at the weekend called “How Westminster Works. . . and Why it Doesn’t” by Ian Dunt, and it’s bloody irritating because nothing works properly and nobody cares.

[Vicus]

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Z9cw4pyKMSU

[Tintin]

Although not specific to Annie Jacobsen this 5 minute excerpt from a VICE feature briefly touches on Raven Rock which is shrouded in secrecy. Computer generated images portray what the Continuity of Government facilities may look like.

From the video:

""There was an awareness at the highest level of the American government that these civil defense drills were really window dressing. This was a massive propaganda effort that bore almost no relationship to reality whatsoever. President Eisenhower knew that this was all BS.""

I'm uncertain the names of the people being interviewed here or when this was made. I'll see if I can find this out and perhaps provide a full version for anyone interested, for the archive.

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Raven Rock: The Story of the U.S. Government s Secret Plan to Save Itself - While the Rest of Us Die

Author: Garrett M. Graff
Publisher: Simon & Schuster, 2017
Link: AbeBooks

Overview:

The eye-opening true story of the government's secret plans to survive and rebuild after a catastrophic attack on US soil--a narrative that spans from the dawn of the nuclear age to today.

Every day in Washington, DC, the blue-and-gold 1st Helicopter Squadron, code-named "MUSSEL," flies over the Potomac River. As obvious as the presidential motorcade, the squadron is assumed by most people to be a travel perk for VIPs.

They're only half right: while the helicopters do provide transport, the unit exists to evacuate high-ranking officials in the event of a terrorist or nuclear attack on the capital. In the event of an attack, select officials would be whisked by helicopters to a ring of secret bunkers around Washington, even as ordinary citizens are left to fend for themselves. For sixty years, the US government has been developing secret Doomsday plans to protect itself, and the multibillion-dollar Continuity of Government (COG) program takes numerous forms--from its plans to evacuate the Liberty Bell from Philadelphia and our most precious documents from the National Archives to the plans to launch nuclear missiles from a Boeing 747 jet flying high over Nebraska.

In Raven Rock, Garrett Graff sheds light on the inner workings of the 650-acre compound (called Raven Rock) just miles from Camp David, as well as dozens of other bunkers the government built its top leaders during the Cold War, from the White House lawn to Cheyenne Mountain in Colorado to Palm Beach, Florida, and the secret plans that would have kicked in after a Cold War nuclear attack to round up foreigners and dissidents, and nationalize industries.

Equal parts a presidential, military, and political history, Raven Rock tracks the evolution of the government's plans and the threats of global war from the dawn of the nuclear era through the present day.

Relying upon thousands of pages of once-classified documents, as well as original interviews and visits to former and current COG facilities, Graff brings readers through the back channels of government to understand exactly what is at stake if our nation is attacked, and how we're prepared to respond if it is.

White House map

Youtube video showing the topography and terrain

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=4lD5EdYvesk

[Tintin]

...and Garrett M Graff's 2017 presentation at the US National Archives. I haven't listened to this yet but it may well be extraordinarily interesting indeed

Raven Rock: The Story of the U.S. Government's Secret Plan to Save Itself

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=k7jmobVI-oE

Description:

Secret government Doomsday plans lay out how to evacuate and protect the nation’s historic artifacts and its leaders. Garrett Graff sheds light on the inner workings of the compound called Raven Rock as well as dozens of other government bunkers