http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...060201410.html
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BACK TO THE BUNKER
By William M. Arkin
Sunday, June 4, 2006; Page B01
On Monday, June 19, about 4,000 government workers representing more than 50 federal agencies from the State Department to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission will say goodbye to their families and set off for dozens of classified emergency facilities stretching from the Maryland and Virginia suburbs to the foothills of the Alleghenies. They will take to the bunkers in an "evacuation" that my sources describe as the largest "continuity of government" exercise ever conducted, a drill intended to prepare the U.S. government for an event even more catastrophic than the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
The exercise is the latest manifestation of an obsession with government survival that has been a hallmark of the Bush administration since 9/11, a focus of enormous and often absurd time, money and effort that has come to echo the worst follies of the Cold War. The vast secret operation has updated the duck-and-cover scenarios of the 1950s with state-of-the-art technology -- alerts and updates delivered by pager and PDA, wireless priority service, video teleconferencing, remote backups -- to ensure that "essential" government functions continue undisrupted should a terrorist's nuclear bomb go off in downtown Washington.
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So, is this really just a test?
Yes, I'm being a little (or a lot) paranoid here. But, if an asteroid was going to hit (one came pretty close last month), an attack on a country using nuclear weapons, or any other known event was going to happen in a few weeks, this would be the perfect cover story. The general population wouldn't be following the congressmen, the aids wouldn't try to get into the bunkers, the media wouldn't care, and normal people would just go on with their lives. Until the doors are locked and the major devistation takes place outside.