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Jan 11, 1952: President Harry Truman received his civil defense dog tags at the Alert America exhibition in Washington, DC. The actual dog tags photo (bottom) was taken by the Harry S. Truman National Historic Site.




"Mrs. John D. Rockefeller Jr...a new house, with fallout shelter." Philadelphia Daily News, Aug 24, 1962:


LOL, her "fallout shelter" probably rivaled the Cheyenne Mountain Complex.


R.I.P. Edward Jay Epstein (1935-2024) was an American investigative journalist.



PowerLine Blog  | Edward Jay Epstein Website

Weird, I can't find any Obit and even the wiki has not updated. Apparently, the austere msm, including all the Epstein conspiracy wackos on social media have completely missed this other "Epstein" who at one time interviewed CIA Counterintelligence Chief James Jesus Angleton.

Update: The wiki just updated: "Epstein died from COVID-19 at his apartment in Manhattan, New York City, on January 9, 2024, at the age of 88." Ok, sure he did.

One of his professors at Cornell was Vladimir Nabokov (expatriate Russian) and some of his writings, notably "Lolita" (1958) had influenced Jeffrey Epstein and he probably kept a copy under his pillow. Also, one of Nabokov's students at Cornell was Ruth Bader Ginsburg. LOL, go figure.

Then 4 years after his book came Stanley Kubrick's controversial film...



Lolita, this time a 14-year old vice 12. Note, those heart shape glasses have meaning in the Hollyweird pedo club back in those days. Nabokov died in 1977 (aged 78) in Montreux, Switzerland.



"...mental and moral reservations as to his ability to launch nuclear weapons." Jan 11, 1975, U.S. Air Force Maj. Harold L. Hering's military career was formally and irrevocably nuked because of a question he had asked a couple of years earlier.



The question he posed during the Nixon era in 1973: "How can I know that an order I receive to launch my missiles came from a sane president?"

He finally got a response 2 years later on Jan 11, 1975: a USAF board of inquiry ruled 38-year-old Maj. Harold Hering, a decorated pilot who rescued downed pilots in Vietnam, with 20 years of service, be discharged.

Going from from a Minuteman missile crewman, he subsequently became a long-haul truck driver and later spending 19 years with the Salvation Army counseling and helping the indigent and homeless. You can read more about him in a WaPo story which of course they had to update the 2017 story to a hit piece by throwing in Trump:

The same nuclear fears Pelosi has about Trump cost an Air Force major his job in 1973

An Unsung Hero of the Nuclear Age (Feb 2011)

In this 2017 episode of Radiolab, you can listen or read the transcript of Hering discuss what happened to him and learn much more about the US nuclear chain of command and the president’s sole authority over whether, when, and how to use the US nuclear arsenal. Note the Biden regime had wanted to revise that nuclear chain command. Pentagon said No. Not sure where the nuclear protocols stand today and Putin is still trying to ascertain just exactly who is running the White House.

Hering, who served SIX tours of duty in Vietnam and Southeast Asia, including 285 air rescue combat missions, never had any moral objections to launching an ICBM. In 1975, he declared, "I do not regret my action, I don't think I did anything wrong." He turns 88 next month.

He's not wrong. On at least one (crisis) occasion, Nixon got drunk and wanted to nuke Pyongyang. An intoxicated President Richard Nixon ordered the Joint Chiefs of Staff to attack North Korea with a nuclear weapon after its fighter jets intercepted and shot down a US EC-121 reconnaissance plane over the Sea of Japan, killing all 31 crew members.



In 2010, NPR interviewed US Air Force veteran Bruce Charles, who was on alert that day at Kunsan Air Base in South Korea and told to prepare to strike his target, a North Korean airstrip. His F-4 Phantom II fighter carried a single 300 kiloton B61 nuclear gravity bomb.



After waiting for several hours that afternoon, Mr. Charles was told to stand down around dusk. Unbeknownst to him, National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger had convinced the Joint Chiefs of Staff to hold off until the next morning, when Nixon would be sober. ("Drunk in charge", The Guardian, Sept 2000)

For more on the newly-installed Nixon administration’s serious consideration of multiple plans for using nuclear weapons against North Korea in retaliation for its shoot-down of the EC-121, see this declassified document collection from the National Security Archive on FREEDOM DROP.

According to the book "The Arrogance Of Power: The Secret World Of Richard Nixon", Nixon had outbursts like this so frequently that Kissinger told White House aides more than once, "If the president had his way, there would be a nuclear war each week!" (see "Drunk in charge" link above)

At age 70, Harold L. Hering began marathon training and competition at the National and World level. Then beginning at age 72, he qualified for Team USA for 9 consecutive years to compete at the World Duathlon Championship.


THE PEACE ABBEY FOUNDATION

And what if someone in his Chain of Command thought that they could no longer sit back and allow Communist infiltration, Communist indoctrination, communist subversion, and the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids? ...Or suffering from some form of dementia? Then what?!



Funny how this decorated war hero gets fired & discharged, but many think Russian officer Stanislav Petrov was a hero (because he received more msm attention) for doing almost precisely this and NOT launching when the computer told him to do so back in Sept 1983.

And that was 20 years before the USAF Academy in Colorado Springs, where AF officers are trained, and became a hotbed of focused evangelical proselytizing.


The other night, YouTube insisted I turn off my adblocker and the moment I did, I was hit with an ad claiming a terrorist attack is imminent to blow up the farms and supermarkets...


Needless to say cookies were nuked and my Adblocker was immediately re-enabled.

Quote of the Day or a reminder we live in absurdly strange times: "Every year for the rest of your life will be one of the hottest [on] record. This in turn means that 2023 will end up being one of the coldest years of this century. Enjoy it while it lasts." - Andrew Dessler, Professor at Texas A&M University.