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If communications work, his decision would be instantly known in all command posts that would originate the actual go order.

For these centers, too, are on the gold circuit.

They include the Navy's Atlantic Command at Norfolk, Virginia, which is in contact with the Polaris subs ; ;

NATO headquarters in Europe ; ;

Air Force forward headquarters in Europe and in the Pacific, which control tactical fighters on ships and land bases ; ;

and SAC, which controls long-range bombers and Atlas missiles.