Pentagon has plan to stop the zombie apocalypse

Never fear, the U.S. military has a strategic plan for surviving the zombie apocalypse.

Deep down in a secret computer network is an unclassified document named "CONOP8888," reports Foreign Policy magazine. It's a detailed synopsis for battling many kinds of zombies, including "chicken zombies," who rise up after being euthanized by farmers, to "evil magic zombies" that are life forms created via some form of occult experimentation."

The 2011 report calls for U.S. Strategic Command to develop a strategy for protecting "non-zombie humans from threats posed by a zombie horde."

Is it for real?

Well, sort of.

Military planners in Omaha, Neb., wanted a detailed scenario for dealing with a widespread national emergency. So they devised a zombie attack protocol that covered training civilians how to survive in a post-apocalyptic world (including collecting rain for water consumption), as well as deploying and withdrawing military personnel.

"The document is identified as a training tool used in an in-house training exercise where students learn about the basic concepts of military plans and order development through a fictional training scenario," Navy Capt. Pamela Kunze wrote to the magazine in an email. "This document is not a U.S. Strategic Command plan."

Yet the report contains a disclaimer that "this plan was not actually designed as a joke."

"Chicken zombies" may be the worst of the bunch when it comes to the types of walking dead identified in the plan.

So-called "CZs" rise from the carcasses of hens put to death because they no longer produce eggs. The reanimated birds then claw their way to the surface.

"CZs are simply terrifying to behold and are likely only to make people become vegetarians in protest to animal cruelty," the document warns.

Other zombie types include beings that come from outer space, Frankenstein engineers who create their own undead and humans infected by a pathogen transmitted via a zombie attack.

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