Cold War Nuclear Attack Provisions for the Supreme Court

Posted By Cliff Tuttle | May 23, 2017

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Back in bad old days of the Cold War, the United States Government had a plan to bunker down the essential parts of the government.  You may have heard that Congress was to relocate to the Greenbriar resort in Southern West Virginia, where a secure underground bunker was prepared.

The Supreme Court, on the other hand, would be relocated to the mountains of Western North Carolina at a resort called the Grove Park Inn.  Unfortunately or fortunately, however you see it, Justice Warren didn’t take the matter very seriously and nothing was done — except for the signing of the contract.  Here’s an interesting article about the place where the Supreme Court never had to go.

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