A Look At A NEST Exercise In Indianapolis

In '86 Exercise, Nuclear Device 'Destroyed' Downtown Indianapolis -- MSNBC

We've seen them in the movies, but now we can read the real-life history of America's nuclear warriors, the Nuclear Emergency Search Team, known as NEST. The story of NEST, which would protect the U.S. in the case of an attempt at nuclear extortion or terrorism, is told in declassified documents published Tuesday.

The 69 documents, released under the federal Freedom of Information Act, were published by the National Security Archive, a respected research organization at George Washington University. (More about the National Security Archive.)

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My Comment: The documents on this exercise can be read here.