Recently Whitley Strieber speculated that
another
terror attack might be on the way?a
nuclear
attack, this time. On May 10, President Bush issued a
national security directive ordering all agencies to prepare
for
a surprise attack on the Federal government.
In 1998, Whitley Strieber published the Secret School, in
which he stated that a surprise nuclear attack on Washington
was a danger, and since 911, many security experts have
repeated this warning. Now, nearly seven years after 911,
President Bush is finally instructing the federal government to
develop a contingency plan for governmental survival after a
surprise nuclear strike on our nation's capital. Since 911, key
officials have been routinely rotated out of Washington, as a
sort of ad hoc contingency against such an extraordinary
attack.
The order is designated National Security Presidential
Directive 51 and Homeland Security Presidential Directive 20.
It says that, "Emphasis will be placed upon geographic
dispersion of leadership, staff, and infrastructure in order to
increase survivability and maintain uninterrupted government
functions."
However, the order fails to address the profound social,
economic and cultural upheavals that would follow a
successful nuclear strike on the US capitol. It is essential
that the concept outlined in the Secret School also be
implemented, that a means be devised whereby an
emergency convocation of governors would lead to immediate
reconstruction of federal authority and the re-establishment
of military command and control. In addition, it is essential
that policy be stated clearly beforehand, that such an event
will result in automatic retaliation against states now
constructing nuclear weapons outside of the context of
existing treaties, and that orders for such an attack be
instituted in the same way that retaliatory orders were put in
place during the Cold War, to be executed in the event of a
nuclear assault on the United States.
Art credit: gimp-savvy.com
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