Continuity of government (COG) is the principle of establishing defined procedures that allow a government to continue its essential operations in case of nuclear war or other catastrophic event.
COG was developed by the British government during World War II to counter the threat of Luftwaffe bombing during theBattle of Britain. The need for continuity-of-government plans gained new urgency with nuclear proliferation.
Countries during the Cold War and afterwards developed such plans to avoid (or minimize) confusion and disorder in a power vacuum in the aftermath of a nuclear attack.
United States
Main article: Continuity of Operations Plan
- Each facility is counterpart to its peacetime equivalent.
- Raven Rock Mountain Complex → The Pentagon (Department of Defense)
- Mount Weather → Federal Emergency Management Agency (Used temporarily for Members of Congress in Sept. 2001)
- Camp David → Executive Office of the President
- Unknown → United States Congress (The Greenbrier was to be used until 1992, when it was decommissioned)
- Cheyenne Mountain → North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD)
- United States Strategic Command Center (Offutt Air Force Base) → United States Strategic Command (USSTRATCOM)
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