Built with its own replicas of the House and Senate chambers-and a vast hall for joint sessions of Congress-this site was code-named "Casper." Only a half dozen members of Congress at any one time knew it even existed. The director of Mount Weather was given a simple commission directly from President Eisenhower: "I expect your people to save our government."īuried underneath the five-star Greenbrier resort in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, was built the relocation center for the entire United States Congress. Amongst these were Raven Rock, code-named "Site R"-or the "Underground Pentagon," as it was more commonly called-an 81,000-square-foot complex located near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania and Mount Weather-code-named "High Point"-a 61,000-square-foot mountain bunker near Berryville, Virginia, where the president, the cabinet, and the Supreme Court justices would be relocated. The doomsday planners' secret bureaucracy planned and built a network of relocation sites for the federal government in a ring around the capitol that became known as the Federal Arc. Presumably, they would be steamrolled over in Washington's-or, rather, the White House's-drive to impose war socialism on the ashes of American society. Gup's piece-and maybe not in the Doomsday Blueprints themselves-are the state and local governments mentioned. would have radically transformed the U.S.'s political and social institutions." Indeed, nowhere in Mr. they drafted detailed contingency plans and regulations that. To achieve these ends, the doomsday planners labored to create a vast and secret doomsday bureaucracy. The Doomsday Blueprints were developed during the Eisenhower administration with a single-minded mission: to save the federal government, preserve and restore law and order, and prime the pump of the devastated economy. But in addition to the millions of civilian casualties, there would be another, more prominent casualty: the pretense of constitutional government. It was estimated that tens of millions of people would be dead, with the major cities of the United States in ruins or in ashes.
We will be running soup kitchens-we are going to be taking care of a completely bewildered population." In a 1955 top-secret memo to advisers, then-President Eisenhower wrote: "We would have to run this country as one big camp-severely regimented." Later on, he asked, "Who is going to bury the dead? Where would one find the tools? The organization to do it? We must not assume that we are going to handle these problems with calmness. They also envisioned outright federal dictatorship, too. The doomsday planners of the '50s envisioned a post-apocalyptic urban America largely in ruins and darkened under the breakdown of private-sector and governmental services and the imposition of martial law, food rationing, price controls, censorship, and the curtailment of individual liberties. If "doomsday" had arrived, a president running the country from the top down would have added mass starvation and social extinction to the mass devastation of nuclear war. government hoped to save the President and keep the country running by relying on THE DOOMSDAY BLUEPRINTS." "Though the Soviet Union is gone," the story went, "Washington was once convinced that World War III could break out without warning. In Time magazine's August 10, 1992, issue, Ted Gup reported on newly disclosed plans that the federal government had developed for salvaging the state in the event of a nuclear attack on the United States by the Soviet Union.
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