The Defense Department has come up with a plan to protect Americans from flesh-eating zombies.

A secret document titled "CONOP8888" lists different plans of attack for the military to follow to protect humans during a zombie apocalypse, Foreign Policy magazine reported Tuesday in an exclusive.  

The document, created in April 2011, "fulfills fictional contingency planning guidance tasking for U.S. Strategic Command to develop a comprehensive [plan] to undertake military operations to preserve 'non-zombie' humans from the threats posed by the zombie horde," according to the document obtained by the magazine.  

"Because zombies pose a threat to all non-zombie human life, [Strategic Command] will be prepared to preserve the sanctity of human life and conduct operations in support of any human population- including traditional adversaries," the document continues.

The report even specifies certain types of zombies. They include "chicken zombies" that are created when "old hens that can no longer lay eggs are euthanized by farmers with carbon monoxide, buried, and then claw their way back to the surface."

There are also evil magic zombies, "created via some form of occult experimentation" and vegetarian zombies that "pose no direct threat to humans because they only eat plant life," according to the DOD document.

Other government agencies have previously used zombies, a prominent feature in U.S. pop culture, to raise awareness. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention used zombies for its emergency preparedness campaign, the magazine reported.

A Strategic Command spokeswoman told Foreign Policy that the document does exist on a "secure Internet site," but said it was just an interesting "training exercise where students learn about the basic concepts of military plans and order development through a fictional training scenario."  

"This document is not a U.S. Strategic Command plan," Navy Captain Pamela Kunze told the magazine.