So, in Gravity's Rainbow, the action happens between the launch and fall of a V-2

[Mark Kohut]

published in 1973..........................
 
in 1973, Richard Clarke, last the national coordinator for security and counterterrorism in the U.S. governement, says in Your Government Failed You:
Sec of Defense Schlesinger ordered US troops on full alert after the Soviet Union began moving nuclear weapons and troops in response to the Arab-Israeli War......
young Richard asked a Pentagon colleague what we would do if nuclear war began. The young Army major laughingly suggested that we go to Ground Zero, which was what the Pentagon staff called the courtyard hamburger stand, and look up to watch the missiles coming in.  ---page 6....
 
 
 


      
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