Uncle Sam plans against zombie invasion

THE US military has drawn up plans to fight off an invasion of “evil magic zombies” and other forms of the undead.

Prefaced with the disclaimer “this plan was not actually designed as a joke”, Conplan 8888 is a strategy “to undertake military operations to preserve humans from threats posed by a zombie horde”.

The 31-page document, obtained by the journal Foreign Policy, details eight types of zombie adversaries the US military may face.

They range from space, weaponised and even vegetarian zombies, who eat plants rather than humans.

The 2011 plan also mentions chicken zombies, a genuine phenomenon where chickens are gassed with carbon monoxide and buried “but inexplicably come back to life and dig themselves out”.

Although not strictly a joke, it is intended as an exercise in drawing up planning docu- ments for training purposes, rather than a real-life strategy.

Its authors said that the public sometimes “mistakenly believes that a fictional training scenario is actually a real plan”, so they opted for “a completely-impossible scenario that could never be mistaken”.