The Strategic Air Command is the principal element of our long-range nuclear capability.

Among the items scheduled for acceleration in the near future are the Polaris and B70 programs, strengthening of the airborne alert system of the Strategic Air Command, and improved battlefield surveillance systems.

( The Senate, on its own, decided to provide additional B-52 and other long-range bombers for the Strategic Air Command.

In addition to these troops Belarus was the area of deployment for units subordinated directly to the USSR Defence Ministry and chiefs of different Soviet Armed Forces services, namely the 103rd Guards Airborne Division, the 38th Guards Airborne Brigade, the 11th corps of the 2nd Separate Air Defence Army, the 26th Air Army and also units and formations of the Strategic Rocket Forces, Long Range Aviation, the Navy and special forces.

The first problem that caused the pause in reconnaissance flights took place on August 30, an Air Force Strategic Air Command ( SAC ) U-2 flew over Sakhalin Island in the Far East by mistake.

The Strategic Air Command ( SAC ) distributed its shorter-ranged B-47 Stratojet medium bombers to civilian airports and sent aloft its B-52 Stratofortress heavy bombers.

The National Security Council, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Strategic Air Command ( SAC ) devised detailed plans for nuclear war against China.

* 1972 – Vietnam War: As part of Operation Linebacker II, 120 American B-52 Stratofortress bombers attacked Hanoi, including 78 launched from Andersen Air Force Base in Guam, the largest single combat launch in Strategic Air Command history.

Strategic Air Command began deploying Boeing B-52 Stratofortress bombers and aerial refueling aircraft to the newly completed airfield facilities in 1987.

After completing his training, Powers was assigned to the 468th Strategic Fighter Squadron at Turner Air Force Base, Georgia, as an F-84 Thunderjet pilot.

* Strategic Air Command, a former operational establishment of the United States Air Force

* Strategic Air Command-The arm of the United States Air Force that was responsible for strategic power projection and control of the US's airborne nuclear deterrent.

The Strategic Air Command ( SAC ) was both a Major Command ( MAJCOM ) of the United States Air Force and a " specified command " of the United States Department of Defense.

Source: Ron Mixer, “ The Genealogy of the Strategic Air Command ”, Battermix.

Within the United States, the USAAF was divided into three separate commands: Tactical Air Command ( TAC ), Air Defense Command ( ADC ), and Strategic Air Command ( SAC ).

SAC's original headquarters was located at Bolling Field in Washington, DC, the headquarters of the disestablished Continental Air Forces, with the headquarters organization of CAF being redesignated as Strategic Air Command.

He is assisted by the Deputy Commander and the Chief of Staff, who are responsible for Strategic Command and Land Force Command.

** Strategic Command-Strategic Command is responsible for all of the long term and strategic concerns of the RFMF, including welfare, legal issues, sustainability issues etc.

As of December 2006, Jones was one of five serving Marine Corps four-star general officers who outranked the current commandant of the Marine Corps ( General James T. Conway ) in terms of seniority and time in grade — the others being Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Peter Pace ; former commandant Michael Hagee, commander of U. S. Strategic Command James E. Cartwright, and Assistant Commandant Robert Magnus.

The United States Space Surveillance Network ( SSN ), a division of The United States Strategic Command, has been tracking objects in Earth's orbit since 1957 when the Soviets opened the space age with the launch of Sputnik I.

The United States Strategic Command is primarily interested in the active satellites, but also tracks space debris which upon reentry might otherwise be mistaken for incoming missiles.

Strategic Air Command was created with the stated mission of providing long range bombing capabilities anywhere in the world.

The situation began to change on 19 October 1948, when Lieutenant General Curtis LeMay assumed leadership of the Strategic Air Command, a position he held until June 1957, the longest tenure for any United States armed forces commander since Winfield Scott.

The development of jet aircraft, specifically the B-47 Stratojet, was a key component in building the Strategic Air Command ’ s bombing capacity.

By 1958, roughly four years after Schriever had initiated his ballistic missile program, SAC activated the 704th Strategic Missile Wing to operate first the intermediate range Thor missile and then a year later the first true ICBM, the Atlas missile.

LeMay and SAC ’ s continuing efforts to assume greater control over nuclear strategy were vindicated on August 11, 1960, when Eisenhower approved a plan to create the Joint Strategic Target Planning Staff ( dominated by SAC ) to prepare the National Strategic Target List and the Single Integrated Operation Plan ( SIOP ) for nuclear war.

The Strategic Air and Space Museum, formerly the SAC Museum, was located adjacent to Offutt AFB till moved to its site off of I-80 between Omaha and Lincoln, preserves SAC's heritage in a fashion open to public view.

Strategic Air Command in the United Kingdom was among the command's largest overseas concentrations of forces, with additional forces at bases in North Africa during the 1950s and 1960s in addition to SAC bomber, tanker, and / or reconnaissance aircraft assets at the former Ramey AFB, Puerto Rico in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, and at Andersen AFB, Guam, RAF Mildenhall, United Kingdom and the former NAS Keflavik, Iceland through the 1990s.

* Yenne, Bill, SAC, A Primer of Modern Strategic Airpower, Presido Press, 1992.

A white paper produced by the Royal Air Force for the British government in 1961 claimed that the RAF's nuclear force was capable of destroying key Soviet cities such as Moscow and Kiev before bomber aircraft from the United States ' Strategic Air Command had entered Soviet airspace, " taking into account Bomber Command ’ s ability to be on target in the first wave several hours in advance of the main SAC force operating from bases in the United States .".

The first PROM programming machines were also developed by Arma engineers under Mr. Chow's direction and were located in Arma's Garden City lab and Air Force Strategic Air Command ( SAC ) headquarters.

As the Cold War came to a head in the 1960s, the government felt it best not to leave the use of nuclear weapons in the hands of possibly-renegade generals, including the commander of Strategic Air Command ( SAC ).

After the war, he headed the Berlin airlift, then reorganized the Strategic Air Command ( SAC ) into an effective instrument of nuclear war.

In 1948, he returned to the US to head the Strategic Air Command ( SAC ) at Offutt Air Force Base, replacing Gen George Kenney.

As a Strategic Air Command ( SAC ) unit, the 4080th was later redesignated the 100th Strategic Reconnaissance Wing and also acquired Lockheed DC-130 Hercules aircraft for launch and control of Firebee reconnaissance drones that were the precursors of contemporary unmanned aerial systems.

In 1984, as a result of the first series of Strategic Arms Reduction Treaties START I between the United States and the Soviet Union, SAC began to decommission its Titan II missile system.

SAC subsequently deactivated the 390th Strategic Missile Wing on 30 June 1984.

He raised the proportion of Strategic Air Command ( SAC ) strategic bombers on 15-minute ground alert from 25 % to 50 %, thus lessening their vulnerability to missile attack.

Part of the American reaction to the Soviet atomic and hydrogen bomb tests included maintaining a large Air Force, under the control of the Strategic Air Command ( SAC ).

The Air Force transferred management responsibilities for Cooke AFB from ARDC to the Strategic Air Command ( SAC ) on January 1, 1958.

Instead it continued as the newly formed Strategic Services Unit ( SSU ), located initially in the War Department.

In October 1960, Ellsworth entered the " Space Age ," with the activation of the 850th Strategic Missile Squadron, initially assigned to the 28 BMW.

This deployment, however, utilized nearly half of the Air Force's manned bomber fleet and Strategic Air Command ( SAC ) commanders were initially reluctant to risk the highly expensive aircraft and their highly trained crews in such an operation.

From July 1997 he was back in the Ministry of Defence, initially on the Naval Staff and then from June 1998, on promotion to Commodore, as a member of the Implementation Team for the 1998 Strategic Defence Review.

This initially was focused on the Strategic Computing Initiative, a US Defense project to use artificial intelligence in military systems, but added opposition to the Strategic Defense Initiative ( SDI ) shortly after the program was announced.

Its one innovation in the early years was the creation of the Strategic Rail Authority ( SRA ), initially in shadow form until the Transport Act 2000 was brought into force on 1 February 2001 and the SRA assumed its full legal powers.

The base was initially a Royal Canadian Air Force station and later a United States Air Force base known as Goose AFB, housing units of the Strategic Air Command and Aerospace Defense Command.

The Institute's primary aim, initially, was to play a role in defense policy debates, defending Ronald Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative ( SDI, or " Star Wars ").

During the German-Soviet War he initially commanded the Northwestern Front during the Baltic Strategic Defensive Operation until 30 June 1941, but was relieved in early August 1941 ( replaced by General Major P. P.

During the Cold War, Upper Heyford initially served as a base for United States Air Force Strategic Air Command ( SAC ) strategic bombers and later United States Air Forces In Europe ( USAFE ) tactical reconnaissance, fighter and fighter-bomber aircraft in the UK.