those crackers are already on e bay
Why didn't FEMA know about this? Isn't this a waste of tax payer money? Impeach Bush, Impeach Bush, Chaney knew about it all along and kept it a secret. (tongue in cheek)
it shows you how frequent the bridge inspections are - that they just found these.
Very interesting!
I recall reading years ago that civil defense supplies were stored in the bridge pylons. If they asked me, I would have told them.
"seemed"
Typical NYT spin. I guess it was just a figment of our fevered imaginations fueled by our "inordinate fear of communism". To quote one of the Slimes favorite Presidents, James Earl "Mr. Peanut" Carter.
Never mind the nuclear weapons already deployed on the Soviet subs we were hassling and which were ordered prepared for firing in at least one case. Never mind the tactical battlefield nukes the Soviets had already deployed, with authorization for their use should the US invade Cuba. All just a figment I guess.
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Headline: Brooklyn Bridge Houses '50s Survival Stash
From Story:
[...]
Many of the cardboard boxes discovered last week in the bridge vault were ink-stamped with two especially significant years in cold-war history: 1957, when the Soviets launched the Sputnik satellite, and 1962, when the Cuban missile crisis seemed to bring the world to the precipice of nuclear destruction.
Some boxes bear labels from the Office of Civil Defense, a unit of the Pentagon that coordinated domestic preparedness in the early 1960's.
BTW, note how the Cuban missile crisis only seemed to bring the world to the precipice of nuclear destruction.
The provisions were probably comforting but would likely have been useless in the case of a nuclear attack, said Graham Allison, a former assistant secretary of defense who teaches at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard.
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