WWII warships as “floating White Houses”

In August 1945, the USA’s two atomic bombs hastened the end of WWII. Four years later the USSR tested its own atomic bomb. As the American military adjusted to the new reality, many new concepts came about. Some were tried, successful, and retained. Others were just tried.

NECPA (National Emergency Command Post Afloat) was a concept to use two WWII warships as a refuge for the President during times of great tension, either prior to a nuclear war with the USSR or as one was already starting.

(USS Northampton (CC-1), an unfinished WWII cruiser, was one of the NECPA ships.)

(USS Wright (CC-2), formerly a WWII aircraft carrier, was the other NECPA ship.)