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Just lots of interesting reading in this: Beginning in the late 1940s, the Soviet Union began building deep underground facilities at Russian sites. Those near
by politicdone 6y ago
Just lots of interesting reading in this:
Beginning in the late 1940s, the Soviet Union began building deep underground
facilities at Russian sites. Those near Chekov and Sharapovo, both outside of
Moscow, were notable for their heavily concealed national command authority
wartime relocation functions. Disguised to look like research and development
facilities to US overhead collection, they thus conveyed a deceptive imagery
signature to analysts. Only persistent analysis in the early 1980s by the US Air
Force Special Studies Group based on anomaly detection and change comparison over 10 years of imagery coverage eventually exposed the facilities' true
purposes.
Designed principally to ensure the survivability of the top leadership and provide
continuity in command and control during wartime, these exceptionally well-hidden, deep underground, facilities implied Soviet intentions and capabilities to
prepare for protracted nuclear war.
- 082349872349872 6y agoDr. Strangelove: "we must not allow a mineshaft gap": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybSzoLCCX-Y https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybSzoLCCX-Y A Boy and His Dog would continue the trope. for the serious original, see p11 of https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_memoranda/RM2206.html https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_memoranda/RM2206.html
- politicdone 6y agoI wonder, is Dr Strangelove a parody of Wernher Von Braun?
- cyberbanjo 6y agoThe real Dr Strangelove, Frank Barnaby suggests that Dr Strangelove may have been based on Henry Kissinger New Scientist › letter › The real Dr Strangelove | New Scientist
- 082349872349872 6y agohttps://www.newscientist.com/letter/mg18224505-100-the-real-dr-strangelove/ https://www.newscientist.com/letter/mg18224505-100-the-real-... argues for a composite persona. Note that Khan was the author of the RAND paper linked above.