[Milsurplus] Cold War Nostalgia

[Ray Fantini]

Back in the days of Reagan I worked for people who were tasked with the idea of a survivable nuclear war. They were developing liners, decontamination equipment and air locks for use in military tents, or Tempers as they called them. This included field testing and at that time I started to feel that about the only ones who would survive an all-out nuclear or biological exchange would be the military. This work branched into other areas like survivable communications networks and lots of other projects. I always thought that this work would somehow undermine the concepts of MAD and be a destabilizing thing, maybe something like the ABM stuff in the sixties. 
Anyway the question I had was that I know the missile silo crews and SSBN crews are all drilled to perfection on deploying and possibly firing there weapons but what happened after the weapons were away? Were you supposed to just crawl out of the silo and go home? Was there ever a post apocalypse command and control procedure?

Ray F