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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.
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.
Strategic Air Command: Directed by Anthony Mann. With James Stewart, June Allyson, Frank Lovejoy, Barry Sullivan. An ex-pilot and current baseballer is recalled into the U.S. Air Force and assumes an increasingly important role in Cold War deterrence.
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.
These were the missions of Strategic Air Command (SAC) from 1946 to 1992 and of the first USSTRATCOM from 1992 to 2002. SAC was created in March 1946 as one of three major commands of the U.S. Army Air Forces and became a major command of the U.S. Air Force in September 1947.
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.
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.
