A Well-Regulated Apocalypse: The Code of Emergency Federal Regulations (2016)

A few days ago, I mentioned that (with the assistance of the National Archives) I had unearthed a bit of Cold War history previously unavailable to the public: the Code of Emergency Federal Regulations (CEFR), a secret set of official regulations that were to go into effect in the event of a Soviet nuclear attack on the United States. This first edition of the CEFR contains a prologue, titled “Explanation,” that explains why the document exists:

And it laid out a structure through which additional emergency regulations could be promulgated, in the event such became necessary:

It then set out 21 chapters, each reserved for regulations affecting a different Federal agency, starting with the President and working all the way down to the Railroad Retirement Board. Change No. 1, dated October 1, 1968, adds sets of regulations for two agencies not included in the original CEFR: the Office of Emergency Planning (OEP) and the General Services Administration (GSA).

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