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

from Stbalbach

Raven Rock is an exhaustive history/survey of the procedures and facilities for saving the US Federal government from a nuclear attack. Today we call it "prepping" but the government has been doing it large-scale since the 1950s. The book centers on two hardened bunkers, one near Camp David Maryl...

from Pinebranch

I read Raven Rock right after Daniel Ellsberg's The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner (which I recommend), which made for some enlightening moments of reading the same events from different perspectives. Eisenhower's predelegation of nuclear weapons authority, for example, co...

from LamSon

This was a really good book. Since the beginning of the Cold War the government has spent billions on the continuation of itself, its institutions and people in the event of a nuclear war. Bunkers have been dug, evacuation schemes devised in what became giant Rube-Goldberg contraptions. As trial ...

from bhiggs

Super interesting cold war history book that doesn't really focus on the cold war, but rather focuses on the continuity of government planning from ~1950 - 2001. Closely follows presidential changes between administrations, ongoing war efforts, and CoG events and how they shaped the way the govt ...

from tenamouse67

I won an ARC in a GOODREADS giveaway -- pretty intense stuff to toss at me. It was very informative and will include documentation of where the research was from. A good read. *** side note: since my copy was an advanced & uncorrected proof; ALL of the end reference material pages were either not...