You’ll Die in a Nuclear War, but These #Elites Will Be Saved - VICE
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The classified programs, technology, and infrastructure are impossible to account for—Graff estimates they cost the country at least $2 billion annually. They also include crisis plans that run counter to the Constitution. JFK’s attorney general’s emergency briefcase, for instance, would have allowed him suspend #habeas_corpus. Other presidents’ apocalypse contingencies have included forced nationalization of industries as well as plans to install unelected private sector executives to run broad swathes of the emergency government. Graff makes it clear that surviving a nuclear war would not be much better than dying in one: If doomsday plans save neither American people nor America’s democratic principles, what exactly are they protecting?