The Art Neuro Weblog

Ike
Eisenhower apparently had an emergency government in planning. I don't know what to make of this except that it seems important he put civilians in charge, at least by plan. As with these things we'll never know if civilians would have been able to rein in the generals in such an event as a nuclear war, but Eisenhower seemed to believe in civilian control. If the 'Thirteen Days' scenario is anything to go by, the civilians would have been hard-pressed to make policy decisions, one would imagine.

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