In the grim movie Fail Safe the President knew evacuations of millions of innocent New Yorkers about to die was impossible.
He asked before NYC was going to be voluntarily bombed by Soviet nuclear weapons and a trading chip to contain the accidental war “Is there anyone or anything absolutely necessary to our country that we should move out before the explosions?”
The aide, sheepishly, corporate records will be vital to the economic recovery, sir.”
Complex sentence meant the US would bomb NYC on purpose to convince the Soviets we didn’t mean to bomb Moscow.