The U.S. Supreme Court has been criticized for failing to heed the wake-up call of 9/11 and not making contingency plans for the continuity of the institution if disaster strikes.

New historical research suggests that indifference goes back decades into Cold War days, when the court first embraced, then dropped, plans to relocate to the Grove Park Inn in Asheville, N.C., in the face of a nuclear threat.

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