Name: How the US Government Will Survive Doomsday
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When nuclear bombs obliterate the earth or a virus wipes out the human race or robots

push mankind out of existence the US Government believes that democracy should continue on.

The country believes that, even if the population of the US ceases to exist, the country should

Akin to its almost paranoid nature, the US government has a series of defined protocols

on how to continue the country when the country is no longer—the Continuity of Government

You probably already know about part of these plans because you probably know about the

If the president dies, there's a list of 17 people ranging all the way from the Vice

President down to the Secretary of Homeland Security who would take their place.

With such a long list, the chances of the US going without a president are near none.

The one time a year when the entire line gathers together—the state of the Union—one individual

in the line of succession is appointed designated survivor to wait out in a bunker to run the

But the line of succession is the basic stuff, the stuff people already know.

What's far less known is the semi-secret protocols and places that the government has

spent billions of dollars and decades building.

However, until just 60 or 70 years ago the US felt it was untouchable.

At no time in history had an enemy existed as relatively close to the US as during the

The US' foreign policy always kept in mind that an ocean separated it from its enemies

but with the invention of nuclear bombs an enemy could go from declaring war on the US

to toppling its government in a matter of hours.

During these days the US government began actively preparing for doomsday.

There are four main bunkers from which the US Government would run the country following

a world-ending event—the Presidential Emergency Operations Center, Raven Rock Mountain Complex,

Mount Weather Emergency Operations Center, and the Cheyenne Mountain Complex.

The President is the most important person to survive doomsday both for symbolic and

If a nuclear warhead is inbound to Washington, he or she would most likely evacuate downstairs

from the White House into their underground bunker but that's not guaranteed.

During the Truman administration, the President refused to leave the oval office during what

This ended up being a false alarm, but some presidents have said that they believe they

should ride out an attack with the rest of the population.

It's just like saying “a captain should go down with their ship.”

The Oval Office, and even the White House Bunker is not the safest place someone can

be during an attack, but morale saves lives and seeing a President braving out the fight

can help create a sense of national unity that would keep the country together.

A single person is replaceable, but the government as a whole is more delicate.

Raven Rock, Pennsylvania would serve as the underground Pentagon.

All the leaders of the armed forces will evacuate by helicopter to this facility in the event

of an attack and command their troops across the country and the world.

During an attack of an apocalyptic scale, it's likely that Martial Law would be imposed

meaning that the military would take over day-to-day control of the country.

The commanders would have wide-ranging almost dictatorial powers and habeas corpus would

From distributing food, to serving as law enforcement, to keeping the lights on, the

armed forces would truly work on the front line of rebuilding a destroyed country.

The Cheyenne Mountain Complex just out of Colorado Springs, Colorado would serve as

the home to NORAD—the agency responsible for controlling and tracking the skies above

So, if the above ground world proved too dangerous for the country's leadership, these four

underground bunkers would serve as home to the bare bones of the US government, but what

Nearly 4.5 million people are employed by the US federal government and they all work

Where would the hundreds of government agencies go?

Well, nobody knows exactly—at least publicly—but we do know how they would relocate.

You might have heard of the DEFCON system—it makes frequent appearances in movies—but

COGCON is a readiness level system that directs agencies how to prepare for an activation

of the government's continuity of government plans.

At COGCON 4—the lowest level—every US Government agency must be able to relocate

to an alternate facility and perform basic functions within 12 hours—it's an incredibly

At COGCON 3 this number goes down to 8 hours then at COGCON 2 is when things get real.

Every agency has three sites for their continuity plan—A, B, and C—and the agency would

split into three corresponding teams—A, B, and C. The A team would relocate to a secure

facility near its normal headquarters—probably bunkers under DC—the B team would relocate

near the Mount Weather Facility, and the C team would relocate to another undisclosed

Each team would be ready to take over operations at a moment's notice.

The A team would continue operations for as long as possible—either until they're

Then the B team would seamlessly take over operations.

If the B team falls, the C team would serve as the final chance for the survival of the

When the surface of the earth is unsurvivable, there is one other place to go other than

The traditional Air Force One has redundancy upon redundancy and dozens of classified defense

measures, but there's a different plane from which the President might command the

country after doomsday—the Boeing E-4 Advanced Airborne Command Post.

It became increasingly clear to leadership under the Carter Administration that the bunkers

would do little to protect against a direct nuclear strike.

In fact, they would just concentrate the very individuals that the enemy would attack into

Surviving a nuclear blast while seven miles above earth, however, is far more conceivable.

This plane is sometimes referred to as, “Air Force One when it matters.”

Whenever the President travels, one of these planes is stationed at most a couple hundred

From this plane, the President can command the country indefinitely.

It can be refueled mid-air by tanker so, barring technical issues, it can remain flying for

In a doomsday scenario, this plane could literally stay airborne for weeks at a time to keep

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