Peter Kuran (@atomcentral.bsky.social mcentral.bsky.social) was able to restore a clean copy of the film, and released it this week. The previous version was so muddy it was hard to feel confident in my conclusions. I'm grateful to Peter, as well as to @atomicanalyst.bsky.social for his help.

April 09, 2026 - 16:31 UTC

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It’s pretty grim stuff to see what even a “fake” official US plan for World War III from 1958 looked like. I know of nothing else like it. Below is my annotated version of plan QUICK STRIKE — read the post for more.
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This is horrifyingly fascinating, thank you! I have so many questions. You mention that some of the lines just seem to end at the Soviet early warning line. I was wondering if maybe there were plans to have some first reconnaissance wings go to & follow the line but not trigger it?
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As a point of comparison, when the Joint Chiefs of Staff estimated how many people globally would die as a result of a similarly-sized attack in 1961, the number they came up with was around 600 million people. Ten Holocausts, as Daniel Ellsberg put it. Just an incredible thing to contemplate.
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The clustering of targets isintwresting snd makes sense…
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