aaron sorkin realizes, deedee myers never knew she was never going to be saved during the war and that george stephanopoulos was. none of these plans included the civilian population. bighose early years, of the operational drills in the expectatione was an they would actually be able to save a large chunk of the civilian population, because you would have enough warning that you were looking at atomic arms rather than hydrogen bonds. you were looking at bombers,, not missiles. have 10-12 hours of warning before a war happened. powerful,es got more and the u.s. government's ambitions shrunk until they are what they are today, hiding out a small number of government officials in mountains and letting the rest of us fend for ourselves. these plants came up during many crises, like the cuban missile up duringplans came many crises, like during the cuban missile crisis. the only time we saw these activated was on 9/11. many of these facilities that had been quietly mothballed were reopened. congressional leaders evacuated by helicopter from the white house lawn, up to mount weather in virg