During Carter’s presidency, such anxieties were focused squarely on the Soviet Union.
Today, such an apocalypse could be triggered by any number of nuclear-armed states, including North Korea and Pakistan. Carter’s decisions remain classified, but documents newly declassified by the CIA, along with the archives at several presidential libraries, provide a new window into the White House’s preparations for an imminent apocalypse. It concerns nuclear war, and how the U.S. Among the greatest foreign-policy dilemmas faced by former President Jimmy Carter is one that has never been publicly aired but is gaining new relevance.
