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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.

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 (FEMA)
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 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

Continuity of government in France

The Centre d'Operation des Forces Aeriennes Strategiques (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.

The hardened headquarters of Force Océanique Stratégique (FOST), France's nuclear SSBN fleet, is at Houilles, Yvelines.

Continuity of government in the United Kingdom

The primary British COG headquarters is at the Ministry of Defence (MOD) 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.

Service command centers are Northwood for the Royal Navy Trident SSBN force, and High Wycombe for the Royal Air Force.

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Motto
"In God We Trust" (since 1956)
"E Pluribus Unum" ("From Many, One"; Latin, traditional)
Anthem
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government is a body that has the power to make and the authority to enforce rules and laws within a civil, corporate, religious, academic, or other organization or group.^[1]
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Nuclear, or atomic warfare, is a war in which nuclear weapons are used. This has only happened once - the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by the United States of America against the Empire of Japan near the end of World War II.
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Her Majesty's Government (HMG or HM Government), or when the monarch is male, His Majesty's Government, is the formal title used by the United Kingdom government, based at 10 Downing Street in London.
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Allied powers:
Soviet Union
United States
United Kingdom
China
France
...et al. Axis powers:
Germany
Japan
Italy
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Deutsche Luftwaffe or Luftwaffe (help info ) (German: air force, literally "Air Weapon", pronounced lufft-va-fa, IPA:
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1,963 total^[4]^[5] 1,107 single-seat fighters
357 two-seat fighters
1,380 bombers
428 dive-bombers
569 reconnaissance
233 coastal
4,074 total.
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Nuclear proliferation is a term now used to describe the spread of nuclear weapons, fissile material, and weapons-applicable nuclear technology and information, to nations which are not recognized as "nuclear weapon States" by the
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The Cold War was the period of conflict, tension and competition between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies from the mid-1940s until the early 1990s.
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A power vacuum is an expression for a political situation that can occur when a government has no identifiable central authority. The metaphor implies that, like a physical vacuum, other forces will tend to "rush in" to fill the vacuum as soon as it is created, perhaps in the form
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The Continuity of Operations Plan refers to the preparations and institutions maintained by the United States government, providing survival of government operations in the case of catastrophic events.
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Site R is a US government facility on Raven Rock, a mountain in Pennsylvania. It is located about 14 km (8.7 miles) east of Waynesboro, Pennsylvania, and 10 km (6.2 miles) north-northeast of Camp David, Maryland. The "R" in "Site R" is an allusion to Raven Rock.
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The Pentagon is the headquarters of the United States Department of Defense, located in Arlington, Virginia. As a symbol of the U.S. military, "the Pentagon" is often used metonymically to refer to the Department of Defense rather than the building itself.
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Department of Defense redirects here. For the defense departments in governments of other countries, see defence ministry.

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Mount Weather Emergency Operations Center is a United States federal government facility located off Virginia Highway 601 near Bluemont, Virginia. The U.S. government has revealed little about Mount Weather to date, although it has acknowledged its basic existence and stated
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Federal Emergency Management Agency
FEMA

New FEMA seal
Agency overview
Formed March 30, 1979

Employees 2,600
Annual Budget $8.02 billion (2008) [1]

Agency Executive R.
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Naval Support Facility Thurmont, popularly known as Camp David, is the rustic 125 acre (0.5 km²) mountain retreat of the President of the United States. Camp David is part of the Catoctin Mountain Park recreational area in Frederick County, Maryland,
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The Executive Office of the President (EOP) consists of the immediate staff of the President of the United States, as well as multiple levels of support staff reporting to the President.
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United States Congress

Type Bicameral
Houses Senate
House of Representatives
President of the Senate
President pro tempore Dick Cheney, (R)
since January 20, 2001
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Location: White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia

Built/Founded: 1858
Architect: Latrobe,John H.B.; Et al.
Architectural style(s): Classical Revival, Federal
Added to NRHP: October 09, 1974^[1]

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The National Audiovisual Conservation Center is the Library of Congress' new audiovisual archive located inside Mount Pony in Culpeper, Virginia. From 1969 to 1988, the facility was a high security storage facility operated by the Federal Reserve Board.
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Department of the Treasury

Treasury Seal
Agency overview
Formed September 2, 1789
Preceding Agency Board of Treasury

Jurisdiction Federal government of the United States
Headquarters
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Federal Reserve System

Seal The Federal Reserve System Eccles Building (Headquarters)
Headquarters Washington, D.C.
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Cheyenne Mountain is a mountain located on the southwest side of Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA, and is home to the Cheyenne Mountain Air Force Station^[1] and its Cheyenne Mountain Directorate, formerly known as the
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North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) is a joint organization of the United States, and Canada that provides aerospace warning and control for North America.^[3] It was founded on May 12, 1958, as the North American Air Defense Command.
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Air Force One is the air traffic control call sign of any United States Air Force aircraft carrying the President of the United States.^[1] Since 1990, the presidential fleet has consisted of two specifically configured, highly customized Boeing 747-200B series
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Type Presidential transport
Manufacturer Boeing
Introduced August 23, 1990 (No. 28000)
December 23, 1990 (No. 29000)
Status Active service
Primary user United States Air Force
Produced 1990-1991

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