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...wallet-size cards with instructions on what to do in the event of an attack. Backyard bomb shelters were common. Senior Washington officials received an emergency telephone number that bypassed the commercial system and linked them directly to crisis operators, who understood that if the caller uttered the single code word -- FLASH -- it meant the call was "essential to national survival." Never out of the President's reach were the Presidential Emergency Action Documents and "Plan D," his options for responding to a surprise nuclear attack...
...relocation sites situated around the capital in what became known as the Federal Arc. Each year the government conducted elaborate exercises in which thousands of officials relocated in ( mock nuclear attacks. Eisenhower and his Cabinet convened at Raven Rock, the 265,000-sq.-ft. "Underground Pentagon" near Gettysburg, Pa., code-named "Site R," or at Mount Weather, a bunker near Berryville, Va., code-named "High Point" (see "Doomsday Hideaway," TIME, Dec. 9, 1991). Airborne command posts and reinforced communications ships stood by to receive the Commander in Chief and his advisers. Congress had its own top-secret relocation center buried...
...event of a nuclear attack, part of a comprehensive national survival program that has evolved over decades under the direction of the President, the National Security Council and a succession of crisis agencies, most recently the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Their wartime duties are spelled out in the Code of Emergency Federal Regulations, a loose-leaf notebook containing hundreds of pages of regulations, most of them drafted in the 1960s and '70s. Specific "action plans" are in agency vaults and relocation sites, to be implemented by officials in nuclear exile. Today's plans rely on redundancy. If one location...
...attack by monitoring late-night activity at the Pentagon and keeping track of troop movements. The KGB and GRU, the Soviet military intelligence agency, also used agents to try to discover the location of the bunkers set aside for U.S. leaders. "We did find out some of the operation code names and hiding places," claims the official. Sometimes the U.S.'s own planning methods tipped off the Soviets. Says the official: "The rehearsals for responding to Russian nuclear attacks helped us a great deal...
...Montagnier knows his virus. He knows firsthand that it alters its genetic code as often as Madonna changes her persona, and thus could easily hide from a blood test. And when perplexed scientists turned to him for answers to the unsettling questions raised in Amsterdam, he delivered his views with the stoic self-assurance that has become his trademark...