'Counterfeit ark' refers to current efforts of the US Federal Emergency Management Agency to save civilian lives in a massive nuclear attack by relocating those living in areas at high risk of direct thermal and blast effects and sheltering them in low-risk rural areas.
They argue that these efforts give a false sense of security because such plans cannot achieve the intended goal of saving 80% of the American population after a 6,600-megaton nuclear attack by the Soviet Union.