It's believed the president would be brought to the Raven Rock Mountain Complex on the Pennsylvania-Maryland state line.
"Through the [nuclear] football and other available communications tools, the president would be linked by voice and video to the Department of Defense's National Military Command Center at the Pentagon, known as the 'war room,' and to Strategic Command headquarters, or STRATCOM, at Offutt Air Force Base south of Omaha, Nebraska, which commands the nation's arsenal of strategic nuclear weapons," Doyle writes inContinuity of...
"For example, during the State of the Union speech, there is always some member of the president's cabinet who is not allowed to attend and instead spends the duration of the speech at an undisclosed location," Weiner told"In the event everyone in the U.S. Capitol was killed, the idea is there would be one person left alive who has some connection to constitutional authority who can take charge of the government," she said.
Weiner said that the current plans for what to do in the event of nuclear war"assume the president will be whisked away to a secure location, get briefed on the situation, and make a rational decision about next steps, including possibly retaliating to any incoming nuclear strike."
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