From “Continuity of Business—Global Nuclear War,” a chapter in the 1988 Citicorp policy manual. The manual is distributed to all bank officers.
In the event of a global nuclear war, we must assume that communication facilities around the world will be disrupted or destroyed and unavailable, and that the senior officer in each area will have to evaluate the local situation and take such action as is deemed necessary to protect the personnel and assets of Citicorp …. We shall rely on the senior officer in each area, using good judgment, to take whatever steps necessary to safeguard…