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government has a plan known as COG, short for “continuity of government’, that is a combination of escape plans, space age communication systems and cleverly concealed bunkers (30). According to the article, the Civil Defense Administration, created by President Harry Truman in 1951, drew up the first evacuation plan for Washington, D.C. One year later, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers began constructing a huge bunker near Washington in the Virginia countryside, known as Mount Weather. As with...