New York Times: Documents Shed Light on Secret U.S. Plans for Apocalyptic Scenarios
WASHINGTON — Newly disclosed documents have shed a crack of light on secret executive branch plans for apocalyptic scenarios — like the aftermath of a nuclear attack — when the president may activate wartime powers for national security emergencies.
Until now, public knowledge of what the government put into those classified directives, which invoke emergency and wartime powers granted by Congress or otherwise claimed by presidents, has been limited to declassified descriptions of those developed in the early Cold War.
In that era, they included steps like imposing martial law, rounding up people deemed dangerous and censoring news from abroad.
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WNU Editor: Here are some of the measures that the US government will impose in an extreme emergency .... Presidential Emergency Action Documents (Brennan Center For Justice).
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