I dont GDW knew of a lot of the government shelters that were in place around DC that are in WV, MD and elsewhere - given the nature of the war you have to figure that once the nukes started to fly that there would have been designated Presidential successors in shelters at all times - there is no way there would have no US President for 22 hours - and there are so many backup communication systems that even if the whole country had been blanketed by EMP there were systems that EMP doesnt take take down that the government had in place by the early 90's
And the only way that the VP would have stayed in the White House to try to ride out the attack would have been in there was no other way to get out of Dodge -something like a Spetsnaz attack on the White House keeping the VP pinned down or whatever
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