The National Archive, from the nuclear vault, electronic briefing books

[bob10]

The Nuclear Vault: Resources from the Nuclear Weapons Documentation Project (http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/nukevault/ebb/index.htm)

[Tombie]

Some interesting reading there Bob..

[bob10]

Some more here, Tombie. How the World wasn't reduced to ash in the post War years is pretty much more good luck than good management.

US, Britain planned to deny Mideast oil wells to Soviet invaders (http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB552-US-and-Britain-planned-to-destroy-Middle-East-oil-facilities-in-case-of-Soviet-invasion-from-1940s-1960s/)

[Tombie]

Ah yes indeed.
And Anyone post Hiroshima has something in their bodies that no one had previously..
Aren't we the lucky ones.

[bob10]

Ah yes indeed.
And Anyone post Hiroshima has something in their bodies that no one had previously..
Aren't we the lucky ones.

Australians are especially lucky, when you consider the fall out from the atomic tests at Maralinga , and other places, would have moved East, with the weather patterns, and dropped its deadly cargo on the unsuspecting population. How many generations paid for that folly?

[bob10]

They were right. It was, and still is, all about Oil. And, the US was paranoid about Russia, back in the day.

The National Security Archive (http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/dc.html'doc=2993976-NWCR-Summer-1976-Rosenberg-USN-and-Problem-of)