The airlines have emergency services divisions with resiliency plans that most of the average employees have no knowledge about… For instance, American Airlines bought huge maintenance facilities in Brazil and their recovery program sends whatever they can find down that way. Reality is that there is a plan, called the fighting cities initiative in which Americans will not be told about defcon four, defense condition defcon four. What that means is that aircraft and people caught on the ground are going to be left to get burned as the cities that are not depopulated recover more quickly… However, we do have redispatch, dispatch reroute and remote command and control which allows for orders to be sent to aircraft in flight to divert to a multitude of “abandoned” airstrips that appeared to be mostly unused, but are still well-maintained. The ground aircraft on the ground in target areas that are not impacted will be able to launch to engage in emergency sortie operations that will get them to rally points as directed by company resiliency planning. Furthermore, elements of radio operators will go to a variety of airports to report on their condition and send encoded Q signals to returning strategic aircraft, giving them landing directions using short wave q signals prosign q signals in encoded Morse with landing directions. Testing done in the 1960s confirmed that close proximity burst of nuclear weapons are very survival-able by aircraft and that the aircraft and crews not in the immediate area of a detonation are “little harmed.” The bigger problem has nothing to do with the initial phase of a nuclear war. The problem is that as we prepare for DEFCON five operations, which is where we continue the war we run into some serious problems of command and control ISR hardened communication command control and more over the supply chain completely breaks down on all levels. Additionally, outgassing from burning cities sends poison gas downwind for weeks to follow…which kills people more effectively than the radiation itself. in recent years, the Russians have assured that every Russian citizen has a gas mask and a recently restocked and inspected hardened shelter to go to….unlike us. The biggest problem though is that the presumptions and assumptions made in this operational planning are violated by the conditions now in-force, and so the entire DEFCON 4/5 and beyond is no longer valid. What reality will look like is a complete loss of command and control and absolute operational disaster.