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Archives treasure #3: Nuclear attack proclamation

Archives treasure #3: Nuclear attack proclamation

This is one proclamation that everyone should be glad wasn’t issued. In 1956, during the peak of the Cold War with the Soviet Union, there was an unsigned and undated proclamation that was to be used by Gov. Arthur B. Langlie in case of a nuclear attack. Washington included several key potential targets for nuclear bombings – Fort Lewis and McChord Air Force Base (now Joint Base Lewis-McChord), the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard at Bremerton, Whidbey Island Naval Air Station,…

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