The Deep State: The Fall of the Constitution and the Rise of a Shadow Government by Mike Lofgren (Audiobook)
From chapter 03:
World War II, the Atomic Bomb, and the Dawn of the Deep State On the eve of World War II, the American state had great potential for world power. It was, after all, already by a significant margin the biggest economy in the world. But that potential was as yet unrealized. Our army was far from the most powerful ground force on the globe: it ranked seventeenth in the world, smaller than the armies of Romania or Sweden. Its equipment was woefully inadequate, and some senior officers still resisted converting their cavalry regiments from horses to tanks. There was no separate air force, and the Air Corps (which was subordinate to the Army) was inferior to the air forces of several other countries. The Navy was in somewhat better shape, managing a rough parity in capital ships with the United Kingdom, although many of its weapons and tactics were out of date.
Over the course of the war, the United States, through pluck, grit, and improvisation, built a military-industrial machine such as the world had never conceived possible. It constructed pipelines in Burma, airfields in the Arctic, swarms of aircraft, and a vast naval fleet a single temporary task force of which was larger than the entire British navy. German survivors of D-Day remarked in awe that the whole English Channel was so full of Allied ships that one could almost have walked dry-shod from one vessel to the other.
The crowning achievement of this new military colossus was the development, at breakneck speed, of the ultimate war-winning weapon and inverted guardian angel of the cold war: the atomic bomb. The attainment of workable nuclear weapons was almost certainly the Deep State’s moment of conception. No other governmental project had been so large, and no other large project had ever been shrouded in so much secrecy. Whole secret cities, like Oak Ridge in Tennessee, Hanford in Washington State, and Los Alamos in New Mexico, sprung up from nowhere in a matter of months. If the Deep State is an evolved structure, nuclear weapons were the genetic mutation that gave it the key characteristics it possesses today: a penchant for secrecy, extravagant cost, and a lack of democratic accountability.
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