I added this section to my emergency preparedness procedure. It got all the way through preliminary review by our FSSC committee. The person who caught it was the company president and minority owner of the company. He wanted it kept in the procedure after he laughed a bit.
In case you don't watch movies, it's the ending of Dr. Strangelove.
9.9 Cobalt Thorium G Doomsday Machine Activation
9.9.1 I would not rule out the chance to preserve a nucleus of human specimens, at the bottom shafts of some of our deepest mines. The radioactivity could not penetrate a mine some thousands of feet deep.
9.9.2 In a matter of weeks, sufficient improvements for a dwelling space could be provided. It would not be difficult. Nuclear reactors could provide power almost indefinitely. Greenhouses could maintain plant life. Animals could be bred and slaughtered. A quick survey would have to be made of all the suitable minesites in the country, but I shouldn't be surprised if several hundred thousand of our people could be accomodated.
9.9.3 A special committee would have to be appointed to study and recommend the criteria to be employed, but off-hand, I should say that in addition to the factors of youth, health, sexual fertility, intelligence, and a cross-section of necessary skills, it would be absolutely vital that our top government and military men be included, to impart the required principles of leadership and tradition.
9.9.4 Naturally, they would breed prodigiously, eh? There would be much time and little to do. With the proper breeding techniques, and starting with a ratio of, say, ten women to each man, I should estimate the progeny of the original group of 200,000 would emerge a hundred years later as well over a hundred million. Naturally the group would have to continually engage in enlarging the original living space.
9.9.5 When they emerge, a good deal of present real estate and machine tools will still be recoverable, if they are moth-balled in advance. I would guess they could then work their way back to our present gross national product within twenty years.
9.9.6 We must not allow a mineshaft gap.