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Continuity of government (COG) is the principle of establishing defined procedures that allow a government to continue its essential operations in case of a nuclear war or other catastrophic event. First developed by the British government during World War II to counter the threat of Luftwaffe bombing to the functions of government during the Battle of Britain, the need for continuity-of-government plans gained new urgency with nuclear proliferation, as countries during the Cold War and afterwards developed such plans in the event of nuclear war to avoid confusion and disorder in a power vacuum in the aftermath of a nuclear attack. Image File history File links Emblem-important. ... Image File history File links Unbalanced_scales. ... The Titan II ICBM carried a 9 Mt W53 warhead, making it one of the most powerful nuclear weapons fielded by the United States during the Cold War. ... The agencies responsible for the government of the United Kingdom consist of a number of ministerial departments (usually headed by a Secretary of State) and non-ministerial departments headed by senior civil servants. ... Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000... The Deutsche Luftwaffe or   (German: air force, IPA: ) is the commonly used term for the German air force. ... This article is about military history. ... World map with nuclear weapons development status represented by color. ... For other uses, see Cold War (disambiguation). ... The Titan II ICBM carried a 9 Mt W53 warhead, making it one of the most powerful nuclear weapons fielded by the United States during the Cold War. ... A power vacuum is an expression for a political situation that can occur when a government has no identifiable central authority. ... The Titan II ICBM carried a 9 Mt W53 warhead, making it one of the most powerful nuclear weapons fielded by the United States during the Cold War. ...

Continuity of government in the United States

Main article: Continuity of Operations Plan

• Each facility is counterpart to its peacetime equivalent.
  • Site R (Raven Rock) → The Pentagon (Department of Defense)
  • Mount Weather → Federal Emergency Management Agency
  • Camp David → Executive Office of the President
  • Unknown -> United States Congress (The Greenbrier was to be used until 1992, when it was decommissioned)
  • National Audio-Visual Conservation Center (Mount Pony) -> Department of Treasury/Federal Reserve (Sold off in 1997 to the National Audiovisual Conservation Center, no longer part of the Continuity of government).
  • Cheyenne Mountain → North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD)
• Also, mobile systems are used for additional command and control.
  • E-4, E-135, EC-130, and E-6 are all airborne command centers.
  • Air Force One is the term for any USAF plane the President of the United States travels on. However, the term normally refers to a Boeing VC-25A the President normally uses. While the VC-25A is equipped with numerous systems to ensure its survival, in an emergency, it would be recommended that he use the National Airborne Operations Center, a Boeing E-4 specially built to serve as a survivable mobile command post. The Secretary of Defense may also use it, as a member of the National Command Authority. It is also possible that the President would authorize the Vice President to use it, depending on the circumstances.
  • An E-6 Mercury, codenamed Looking Glass, is USSTRATCOM's Airborne Command Post, designed to take over in case NORAD's Cheyenne Mountain Operations Center is destroyed or incapable of communicating with strategic forces.
  • NORAD owns and operates a mobile vehicular command center
• National Program Office was established as a shadow government by the Reagan administration.

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Continuity of government in France

The Centre d'Opération des Forces Aériennes Stratégiques (COFAS) is a hardened command center for French nuclear forces in Taverny, Val d'Oise. The alternate national command center is located at Mont Verdun near Lyon. Taverny is a commune in France, situated in the Val-dOise département, in the ÃŽle-de-France région. ... Val-dOise is a French département named after the Oise River, located in the ÃŽle-de-France région. ... This article is about the French city. ...

The hardened headquarters of Force Océanique Stratégique (FOST), France's nuclear SSBN fleet, is at Houilles, Yvelines. It has been proposed below that SSBN be renamed and moved to Ballistic missile submarine. ... Houilles is a commune in the northwestern suburbs of Paris, France. ... Yvelines is a French département in the région of ÃŽle-de-France. ...

Continuity of government in the United Kingdom

The primary British COG headquarters is at the Ministry of Defence in Whitehall. An alternate national command center has been maintained in a quarry complex near Box, Wiltshire. The above-ground support facility is RAF Rudloe Manor. Whitehall, London, looking south towards the Houses of Parliament. ...

Service command centers are Northwood for the Royal Navy Trident SSBN force, and High Wycombe for the Royal Air Force. // The world renound retard, jack milner, has been said to be living in the retarded town just west of high wycombe known as down syndromly. ...

See also

• Central Government War Headquarters
• Charles E. Allen
• Civil Contingencies Secretariat
• Continuity of Operations Plan
• Critical Infrastructure Protection
• Designated survivor
• Disaster recovery
• Federal Emergency Management Agency
• Mount Weather
• National Security and Homeland Security Presidential Directive
• Shadow government

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External links

• Washington Post article - Back to the Bunker
• CBS News Article - 'Shadow Government' News to Congress
• Video: COVER UP - Behind the Iran Contra Affair - Pt 3 specifically, also Pt 1 Pt 2
• Summary of Executive Powers
• Congressman DeFazio denied access to Continuity of Government files