Editing Elizabeth Clare Prophet (section)

=== Operation Christ Command ===
In 1987, Prophet predicted a first strike by the [[Soviet Union]] if America did not implement a [[missile defense]] program. She established "Operation Christ Command", instructing her followers to move to Montana and build nuclear fallout shelters for the impending nuclear holocaust.<ref name="legacy" /> Adherents started construction of what was called the largest bomb shelter in the United States<ref name="Harnett-Failed-June-2024-52-58" /> at the compound near [[Yellowstone National Park]], on land purchased from magazine publisher [[Malcolm Forbes]].<ref name="LA" /> Non-staff church members built private shelters nearby.<ref name=":0" />

Beginning on March 15, 1990, over three days, hundreds of followers waited for a nuclear attack in various bomb shelters,<ref name="Harnett-Failed-June-2024-52-58" /> communicating with each other by radio. Insiders, however, spread the word that the event might be the real thing. No one knew for sure, and many children believed this could be the end of life as they knew it.<ref name="egan" /> When no nuclear bombs exploded the event was compared to another unsuccessful prediction of the end of the world, the [[Great Disappointment]] of 1844.<ref name="Harnett-Failed-June-2024-52-58" />