With Enough Shovels : Reagan, Bush & Nuclear War [signed]

If there are enough shovels to go around, everybody's going to make it."" Scheer, a Los Angeles Times reporter and former Ramparts editor, got that assessment of American civil defense capabilities from T. K. Jones, current Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering, Strategic and Theater Nuclear Forces, and a former Boeing manager. What ""T.K."" meant was that, with a shovel, anyone can dig a fallout shelter--a simple hole in the ground with a door over the top and three feet of earth on top of that. ""It's the dirt that does it,"" he said. The fact that this quack is a government official has Scheer upset. He was also upset by presidential-candidate George Bush's claim, in an interview that received national attention, that nuclear war was ""winnable.""