> there isn't anything that he can't know If he knew that "something" even exists! A former civilian nuclear war planner, I think while working for RAND, lear

> there isn't anything that he can't know If he knew that "something" even exists! A former civilian nuclear war planner, I think while working for RAND, learned about the existence of the US military plan for the actions involving nuclear weapons: the plan specified the amount of nuclear response to any conflict, which is fundamental for anybody who has the power to resolve conflicts (a president) to know. But the civilians weren't allowed to know that the plan even existed: the planner also learned that no other civilian, including the people around the president and the president himself, even knew that the said plan existed: it's very existence was being actively hidden from "civilians." They also had a method for delivering them "something else" if the "civilians" asked "about" that topic. The military managed for years to operate (to be trigger ready) on the plans they kept completely hidden from anybody, including the president. The president or anybody around him had explicitly no chance to get that by their own initiative. Everything nicely documented in the book "The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner." Read it and weep.