The Mount Weather Emergency Operations Center is a U.S. government facility located in Bluemont, Virginia. It houses operations and training facilities above ground for the Federal Emergency Manageme...
During the Cold War, President Dwight D. Eisenhower provided by executive order for various measures which were supposed to ensure that the U.S. government would be able to continue in case of nuclea...
A Senate Subcommittee in 1975 learned that the "facility held dossiers on at least 100,000 Americans. Senator John Tunney later alleged that the Mount Weather computers can obtain millions of pieces ...
According to Daniel J. Cronin, former assistant director for the FPA, Reconnaissance satellites, local and state police intelligence reports, and Federal law enforcement agencies are just a few of th...
Set up for an "alternate power" Executive Order 11490 signed by Nixon makes no reference to "war," "imminent attack," or "general war." These quantifiers are replaced by an extremely vague "national ...