Popular Mechanics: How the U.S Government Would Deal With Doomsday
It goes way deeper than the designated survivor.
A recurring theme in movies and TV shows is the destruction of the United States government. From Independence Day to Designated Survivor, people love watching the White House get blown up. But if things really were to go south, the contigencies would be more complicated than any work of fiction is likely to illustrate.
The contingencies revolve around shifting personal and areas of operation. Washington D.C. becomes mobile, both on land and in the sky. Government operations shift between underground bunkers near the capitol, while the armed forces would move to a series of complexes. The Pentagon would shift to Raven Rock Mountain Complex in Pennsylvania, while the Cheyenne Mountain Complex near Colorado Springs would run NORAD.
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WNU Editor: An interesting (but disturbing) video to watch.
3 comments:
This is something that has to be done (thought about, with some preparation). Still though I believe even the most realistic assessments of this type of event do not come close to the real magnitude of it's reality.
Berlin April 1945 Hitler, commanding Divisions that no longer exist, giving orders that no one is following, this is the likely scenario. It's a good thing that the people that are smart enough to make Nuclear Weapons and Ballistic Missiles aren't smart enough to hit this alternative Govt sites. Also while these idiots are saving the most useless people in the country, the very people that keep the country running, die on the surface, the Machinist, Plumbers, Electricians, Farmers, Tech Repairmen, etc, fry on the surface, when the Plumbing backs up good luck to those paper shufflers trying to fix it, can you imagine any of these dicks trying to trouble shoot a simple Generator or water pump,let alone change out a circuit breaker.
TWN,
It's one of those deals that has no real answer in humanities general thinking. If you go along with the idea that man is just an unusual animal (thinking, tool making, etc), but an animal nonetheless. What assurance do we have that we won't disappear as species tomorrow as so many others have before us?
If we go with the Deists who believe Man has a soul and is created in the image of so on so on, you still find no place in said literature of an explicit statement of eternity here on earth for Man. You have end time, resurrections, etc.
So not to be too long and boring, it really boils down to; they will be used, just how much and when? I personally think Mankind will survive usage, but in what way and how long the recovery is I have no idea.
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