Michael Loewinger
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Fortunately, nuclear obliteration never came and Mount Weather was never truly put to use.
But there's something ironic and revealing that a single storm brought more death and destruction to the base than 30 years of the Cold War.
By the 1970s, it had become clear that the nuclear preparations had done little to protect America from an arguably greater threat.
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To better understand the current day crisis at FEMA and why so many Americans believe wild conspiracy theories about it, I wanted to dive back into the era it was created, when state leaders began to realize that all the focus on Cold War civil defense had left them vulnerable to Mother Nature.
We just didn't have that many nuclear wars, which is great.
But we do have a lot of natural disasters.
Garrett Graff is a journalist and author of a book about the origins of FEMA titled Raven Rock, the story of the U.S.
government's secret plan to save itself while the rest of us die.
Before the agency was created, America's disaster response system was, well, barely a system.
every state to be developing its own totally independent ability to respond to a hurricane because in any given year, most states don't get hit by a hurricane.
Which became a big problem in the 60s and 70s when the country was rocked by a series of record-breaking disasters.
Born of the sea, she turned like a woman scorned.
She screamed and ripped and flooded and killed.