Day After World War III

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1. smacktowardJun 2018
   If you're interested in this subject, track down a copy of Edward Zuckerman's 1984 book The Day After World War III (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1415128.The_Day_After_Wo...). It's now sadly out of print, but it's a treasure trove of great contemporary reporting on the U.S. government's Cold War "continuity of government" plans. ("Continuity of government" being the delicate bureaucratic euphemism for how they intended to keep society from collapsing if the bombs should fall.)

   It was a mention of a secret, apocalypse-only regulatory code in Zuckerman's book that got me on the trail of the Code of Emergency Federal Regulations (CEFR), which I worked with the National Archives to make available to the public back in 2016: https://jasonlefkowitz.net/2016/10/presenting-a-bit-of-histo...

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2. lgleasonDec 2016
   wait, Mad Max is not a documentary ;)

   With a full scale nuclear exchange we would have a nuclear winter for a the first few years (when the radiation would be the highest). This is an interesting read that looks at actual US government procedures following and exchange. It's a bit dated, but was written during the height of the cold war. https://www.amazon.com/Day-After-World-War-III/dp/0670258806

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