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That was a rejected proposal. (There are probably all kinds of crazy military proposals that get rejected)
by wybiral 9y ago
That was a rejected proposal.
(There are probably all kinds of crazy military proposals that get rejected)
- ethbro 9y agoGoing to war with Spain over the USS Maine's magazine detonation of unknown cause. Though that outcome falls more on Hearst and Pulitzer. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Maine_(ACR-1) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Maine_(ACR-1)
- wybiral 9y agoThat's one possible theory about an event that happened in the 1890's.
- linsomniac 9y agoMy memory of reading Bamford's book was that it was an APPROVED proposal, which was made obsolete by the Cuban Missile Crisis. The DOJ approved that plan, and many of the people involved in that are still on the scene today. But, I read that book a decade or more ago so maybe I'm misremembering.
- philwelch 9y agoExactly how many people involved in a scheme during the early 1960’s would still be “on the scene today”? If one of the coauthors of the plan was a 20 year old intern who had a long government career, that person would be 75 today. “Many of the people” involved seems unlikely.