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Zusatztext “A detailed exploration of the United States’ doomsday prepping during the Cold War . . . Graff! a former editor of Washingtonian and Politico magazines! covers every technicality of the construction of underground bunkers and secret command posts! every war game and exercise! every debate over presidential succession planning and continuity of government! every accident that left us verging on nuclear war. . . . But if there is anything that Raven Rock proves with grim certitude! it is that we have little idea how events would have unfolded in a superpower nuclear conflict! and that technological limits! human emotion and enemy tactics can render the most painstaking and complex arrangements irrelevant! obsolete! or simply obscene.” —Carlos Lozada! The Washington Post Informationen zum Autor Garrett M. Graff has spent two decades covering politics, technology, and national security. The former editor of POLITICO and longtime WIRED and CNN contributor, he writes the popular Doomsday Scenario newsletter and hosts the Edward R. Murrow Award–winning podcast Long Shadow . He is the author of ten books, including the #1 national bestseller The Only Plane in the Sky , the FBI history The Threat Matrix , Raven Rock , and the New York Times bestsellers When the Sea Came Alive and Watergate: A New History , which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in History. Klappentext "The eye-opening truth about the government's secret plans to survive a catastrophic attack on US soil--even if the rest of us die--a roadmap that spans from the dawn of the nuclear age to today"--Provided by publisher.Raven Rock INTRODUCTION For Richard Nixon, August 9, 1974, may have marked the end of his presidency, but for Dexter McIntyre, it was just another workday—a Friday like any other in a workplace unlike almost any other. He arrived early in the morning at the secret AT&T facility in Stanfield, North Carolina, entered the access code at the outer fence, parked his car in the small aboveground lot, and walked through a small door built into the hillside. The complex had existed since 1965, when AT&T began to dig a big hole about two miles from McIntyre’s childhood home in Locust, North Carolina, about thirty miles east of Charlotte. He had been nineteen when construction started, and recalls, “There was a lot of curiosity about what was going on there.” No one really knew what the hole was for—or even really who was digging. Some locals swore it was a secret facility for communicating with aliens; others believed it was a secret submarine base—despite the fact that it was about 150 miles from the ocean. The truth, as it turned out, was almost as strange as the fiction. In 1967, McIntyre found himself reporting to work at the newly completed facility as a technician. The big hole that had so fascinated the community now contained a nuclear-hardened, department-store-sized concrete bunker, protected by twin 20,000-pound blast doors, that helped run an AT&T “long line” cable from Miami to Boston, skirting major metropolitan areas that might be nuclear targets. It was one of dozens of specially built facilities that ran air-to-ground communications for VIP military aircraft like Air Force One and various airborne alert command posts—programs with code names like NIGHTWATCH and LOOKING GLASS—that ensured that in the event of a nuclear strike someone in America would be able to launch from the ashes a devastating retaliatory blow against the Soviet Union. For a quarter century, one eight-hour shift at a time, McIntyre and his colleagues—all technically AT&T staff—tended this hidden m...
