A NEW YORKERS GUIDE TO CIVIL DEFENSE. WHERE TO GO WHAT TO DO & HOW FAST TO DO IT.
and boat, we will be relocated to host (“safe”) areas.
Once there, we must build our own shelters. T.K. Jones, Undersecretary of Defense for Strategic and Nuclear Forces, advised the following: “Dig a hole, cover it with a couple of doors, and then throw three feet of dirt on top. It’s the dirt that does it.”
Hey wait a minute! Isn’t a hole in the ground, covered with wood, covered with earth, called a grave? I mean, are we digging our own graves, jumping in, and saving them the trouble? And won’t the enemy be suspicious?
Sure. If they notice we are evacuating our cities and crawling into holes in the ground, they may conclude we are preparing for nuclear war and launch their weapons first. Or, having a week’s notice, they could simply retarget their missiles and follow us. But let’s say they wait for 11 million New Yorkers to leave town and then
