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Strategic Air Command ( SAC) was a United States Department of Defense Specified Command and a United States Air Force (USAF) Major Command responsible for command and control of the strategic bomber and intercontinental ballistic missile components of the United States military's strategic nuclear forces [2] from 1946 to 1992.
The Strategic Air Command was basically the same Twentieth Air Force from Guam that LeMay had commanded during the war. It was a natural transition, since it was the only military organization on earth with previous nuclear experience, having dropped the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Strategic Air Command (SAC), U.S. military command that served as the bombardment arm of the U.S. Air Force and as a major part of the nuclear deterrent against the Soviet Union between 1946 and 1992. Headquartered first at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland and then, after November 1948, at Offutt.
Feb 25, 2019 · Strategic Air Command veteran Bruce Blair takes the story in to the 1970s, with an extraordinary account, based on personal experience, of how SAC would have carried out its nuclear mission if deterrence failed.
U.S. Strategic Command is one of eleven unified commands under the Department of Defense (DoD). Headquartered at Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska, USSTRATCOM is responsible for strategic deterrence, global strike, and operating the Defense Department's Global Information Grid.
As the Department of the Air Force and the broader Pentagon plan out billions of dollars in spending to upgrade and modernize nuclear command, control, and communications, there are natural opportunities to build on work already done for the sweeping joint all-domain command and control (JADC2) effort, a top Air…
Today, the Strategic Air Command does not exist, now gone for almost two decades. There is no singular exclusive nuclear-dedicated command in the U.S. Air Force. SAC, created in 1946, was purely a Cold War decision that focused on the Soviet nuclear threat that lasted over 40 years.
Forty years of alert posturing and preparation for an apocalyptic war caused the command and its war-riors to develop an organizational paradigm commonly labeled the “SAC mentality,” which served the command well in the early, intense years of the Cold War.
Strategic Air Command World War II proved what the proponents of air power had been championing for the previous two decades -- the great value of strategic forces in bombing an enemy's industrial complex and of tactical forces in controlling the skies above a battlefield.
For decades, Air Force components sponsored numerous historical studies, some on their role during international crises. This declassified history of Strategic Air Command (SAC) operations gives a full and fine-grained account of its complex role during the U.S.-Soviet confrontation over missile in Cuba.
