Key Benefit: Guaranteed Survival of a Nuclear Attack, Fed Job 1956

A Fed job posting very clearly outlining the job requirements of the "Chief: Damage Assessment Division." With details around pre- and post-nuclear attack. This role was responsible for "translating likely patterns of attacks into losses of manpower, industrial capacity, and weapon systems output," as well as "assessing actual losses, for alternating alternate levels of output consistent with surviving resources and for testing feasibility of proposed new mobilization programs." Plus "development and maintenance of capabilities for both rapid and deliberate damage assessments in event of actual attack..."

See full job description at Ptak Science Books.

(Via Boing Boing)