Why is it that everyone always assumes that BEM, the guy who repeatedly travels through time, the guy who brings back advanced technology that could never have been developed prior to the war even without the Project, never brought back some estimate of the date of the war? It is the single most valuable thing he could give them, beyond fusion power or the universal antidote or even the fact of the Project's existence.
If he doesn't then the Project has to live every day as if the war could be tomorrow. That means a vast expenditure of people and money and resources. If he does... then they don't need to man PB until a year or two before the war starts, and the staff will be ideally selected from the best ever recruited AND will go into the ground with up to date knowledge of the situation and the resources without having wasted their lives disgruntled underground.
Seriously - there is a reason intelligence services are so important. Knowing what you have to deal with is the single biggest advantage in survival. It's the sensible thing and in no way detracts from the game. Heck, I would be disappointed if I fought all the way to PB and found it full of 70's technology and the remnants of 40 years of habitation.
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