Review[]
I'm finishing up a review of the USA's immediate post-Doomsday history that attempts to close up some implausibilities. It tries to rely more on the country's historic emergency plans - the canon relies on invented plans that give a special status to Torrington, Wyoming for no particular reason. Torrington is actually a very bad place for an emergency government. It's out on the plains totally exposed to the blasts around Cheyenne. It's plausible that it's inhabitable by the 90s, so it can still serve as the new capital, but it can't be the relocation site in the beginning.
To replace these plans, I've added an emergency federal administration that goes to the high mountains of Colorado in 1984. It includes George Bush, Tip O'Neill, and some members of the cabinet. They choose this site in order to be close to NORAD - NORAD's importance is well established in canon - and because the altitude provides some security. The administration leaves Colorado for Wyoming after a couple of years and basically goes dormant. But this provides the connection between the Reagan administration and the PUSA in the early 90s - a connection that hitherto was accomplished by the secret status of Torrington, which I argue is implausible and unnecessary.
I've made relevant changes to this article. I'm almost done bringing all articles into agreement with this turn of events. A fuller history is now at 2010 Congressional Report on Continuity of the US Government (1983: Doomsday), and the overall description of the review is at User:False Dmitri/anzus.
False Dmitri (talk) 16:34, 29 June 2023 (UTC)