“Were the old ones inadequate? How?”
The old plans were to try to save large portions of the civilian population.
They just don’t care about that anymore.
This. This is what those in power think. They know they will be safe in their well stocked bunkers and for the rest of us? Bye-Bye! If anyone thinks that most of the folks in DC give a flip about the rest of us every day people, you are dreaming. Why else would someone like Lindsey Graham or Biden want the US to test Putin to the point of nuclear war? What is the end game? Is this a game of chicken?
So the plan is now “haul a$$ to NORAD, get in, lock the door. Plenty of booze and hookers already below”?