CDWB00035: Memorandum to the Under-Secretary (March 1953)

This is a Department of External Affairs memorandum summing up a JPC document. The JPC recommended that the CSC must establish a command center and select officers to act as the Chiefs of Staff if the existing members were killed by a nuclear strike. This document describes thinking on a Joint War Room remote from Ottawa. 

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RG25-A-3-b, vol. 6028, file 50285-40, pt 1 "Emergency planning by National Defence Headquarters, in Ottawa in event of disaster", Library and Archives Canada.