If Putin chooses to remove DC from the map, that action would cause an executive order from the Kennedy years, that has been kept updated by every administration since, to be invoked. It’s the 1961 EO about reconstitution of government that involves a large role for the military and the states. It’s the one way that the military could be called out of the barracks without violating the Constitution.
Low hanging fruit stop, here..
The “Q” designation was the top Intelligence clearance that eventually associated its expertise in the Atomic Energy (nuclear materials) Commission.
— WIKIPEDIA
Interesting, given the current nuclear saber rattling.
“As of 1993, a Q clearance required a “single scope background investigaton” of applicants, by the OPM and the FBI.
(How comforting, all those years, pre-Trump.)
And, as of 2019, the cost was
$5,596.
“As of 2021, there were 92,177 people who hold that clearance.”