The missing generation.

[ArmySGT.]

Originally Posted by Askold

So you would want the Project to start doing eugenics?

No.

I don't see the point in disappearing children to repopulate a devastated American population with known inheritable disorders.

The surviving population is suffering radiation poisoning as well as genetic disorders due to radiation exposure. The rate of spontaneous abortion (miscarriage) is going to be very high among survivors of child bearing age. Bring these children out of cryosleep at war day + 10 years, 20 years, and 30 years allows a phase in of healthy stock. Stock which by the way would have to survive the "Typhoid Mary's" in the war survivors too.