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To: neverdem; agere_contra; ansel12; TalonDJ; battlegearboat; 2banana; Tokra; Cliff Dweller; ...
Yes, but you're all missing the biggest story of all... the fact that the Office of Civil Defense either thad a time machine or they were psychic...

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.

No comment.

24 posted on 03/22/2006 7:07:49 AM PST by Gondring (I'll give up my right to die when hell freezes over my dead body!)
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To: Gondring

Good reading


25 posted on 03/22/2006 7:15:05 AM PST by ansel12
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To: Gondring

Good catch! What did they know and when did they know it?!!


26 posted on 03/22/2006 8:14:57 AM PST by TalonDJ
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