Welcome to the apocalypse, baby! 

The usual Sunday evening rush hour at one of the world's busiest international airports was disrupted tonight by a plane that rarely appears in public  — a white Boeing 747 with the words 'United States of America' emblazoned on its side and with odd bumps and antenna protruding from its fuselage, maneuvered around the dozens of commercial airliners, trying, unsuccessfully, to blend in. 

The modified 747 is the so-called 'National Airborne Operations Center' (NAOC) — informally known as the 'Doomsday Plane' because it is designed to serve as the Pentagon's backup headquarters in case of a catastrophic attack on the United States. 

I’ve long been intending to write a sci-fi book (one among the vast and growing slushpile) about this very facet of modern power.  After they have destroyed humanity with their reckless hubris, it is these very same people who will have the underground bunkers, flying doomsday fortresses, and even space-based habitats who will survive virtually any foreseeable disaster.  Which means it is these same people who will be responsible for repopulating the Earth when the dust finally settles.  Can you imagine a human race wholly comprised of genetic material from fanatical survivalists and zealot Washington elites?  Blech! 

Speaking of doomsday.