As an Air Force psychiatrist put it: `` You can't have dry runs on this one ''.

He was, and is, with the RAND Corporation, a nonprofit pool of thinkers financed by the U.S. Air Force.

to the SAC command and control post, forty-five feet below the ground at Offutt Air Force Base, near Omaha, Nebraska ; ;

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

the Army, Navy and Air Force, among others, may question Secretary Freeman's claim that the high estate of United States agriculture is the `` strongest deterrent '' to the spread of communism.

Sen. Case Aj, has received a nice `` thank you '' note from a youngster he appointed to the Air Force Academy in Colorado.

Air Force life is great, the cadet wrote, `` though the fourth-class system is no fun ''.

The American Registry Of Pathology operates as a cooperative enterprise in medical research and education between the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology and the civilian medical profession on a national and international basis, under such conditions as may be agreed upon between the National Research Council and The Surgeons General of the Army, Navy, and Air Force.

In addition, their establishment made it unnecessary to begin publication of a contemplated Air Force medical bulletin.

This project was carried out under sponsorship of the Ballistic Missile Division of the Air Research and Development Command, U.S. Air Force, and had as its goal the investigation of the transport by diffusion of the heat energy of chemical binding.

and an Air Force of 91 combat wings and 825,000 men.

Basic long-line communications in Alaska are now provided through Federal facilities operated by the Army, Air Force, and Federal Aviation Agency.

A project for the Air Force has been completed in which the NAIR infrared detecting device was developed for area monitoring of noxious or dangerous gases.

The Air Force Office of Scientific Research has provided financial assistance in the early stages of the Institute's program.

She was the John Harvey, one of those Atlantic sea-horses that had sailed to Bari to bring beans, bombs, and bullets to the U.S. Fifteenth Air Force, to Field Marshal Montgomery's Eighth Army then racing up the calf of the boot of Italy in that early December of 1943.

The Royal Air Force had but a single light anti-aircraft squadron and two balloon units available.

division five, by the Air Force followed by 11 states.

`` We're just real happy for the players '', Coach Bill Meek said of the 9-7 victory over the Air Force Academy.

He broke that boy ( Air Force fullback Nick Arshinkoff ) in two and knocked him loose from the football ''.

The game players saw the Air Force film Monday, ran for 30 minutes, then went in, while the reserves scrimmaged for 45 minutes.

Brig. Gen. and Mrs. Robert F. McDermott will entertain at a black tie dinner Wednesday, May 3, in the Officers' Club at the Air Force Academy.

A young real estate salesman, Kern first got seriously interested in the problems posed by Communism when in the Navy Air Force.

On the U.S.'s island base of Okinawa, Task Force 116, made up of Army, Navy, Marine and Air Force units, got braced to move southward on signal.

The Air Force countered with data supporting the B-36, and minimized the importance of a naval role for surface ships in future major conflicts.

An article in Air Enthusiast countered by saying that the description Dickie gave of the airplane did not match Whitehead's Number 21.

Orville Wright, then in his seventies, countered by writing an article, " The Mythical Whitehead Flight ", which appeared in the August 1945 issue of U. S. Air Services, a publication with a far smaller, but very influential, readership.

A top-secret White Paper, compiled by the Royal Air Force and produced for the British Government in 1959, estimated that British atomic bombers were capable of destroying key cities and military targets in the Soviet Union, with an estimated 16 million deaths in the USSR ( half of whom were estimated to be killed on impact and the rest fatally injured ) before bomber aircraft from the US Strategic Air Command reached their targets.

Project Mogul ( sometimes referred to as Operation Mogul ) was a top secret project by the US Army Air Forces involving microphones flown on high altitude balloons, whose primary purpose was long-distance detection of sound waves generated by Soviet atomic bomb tests.

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 ).

Offutt AFB's legacy includes the construction of the first two bombers to drop atomic bombs and over 40 years as the headquarters for the former Strategic Air Command ( SAC ) and home for its associated ground and aerial command centers for the U. S. in case of nuclear war during the Cold War.

Secretary of the Air Force Stuart Symington chose to locate the Air Force's crucial long-range atomic strike force at Offutt primarily because the base was centrally located on the North American continent, placing it well beyond the existing range of long-range, nuclear-armed bombers to ( then ) stay safely out of range of hostile missiles or bomber aircraft.

Paul Warfield Tibbets, Jr. ( February 23, 1915 – November 1, 2007 ) was a brigadier general in the United States Air Force, best known for being the pilot of the Enola Gay, the first aircraft to drop an atomic bomb in the history of warfare.

He identifies that the General Secretary is responsible, and blackmails Krilov into revealing the plan ; in contravention of the Fourth Protocol to the 1968 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty a small atomic device is to be smuggled ( via its component parts ) into England, and be exploded near Bentwaters Air Force Base a week before the general election.

A fictional account of British national policy in 1939, it tells how Britain's secretary of state tried to keep world peace, even with the Royal Air Force aggressively brandishing rocket airplanes and an atomic bomb.

The atomic bombings of Japan led to the Japanese surrender before Eighth Air Force saw action in the Pacific theater.

The Eighth Air Force was specifically charged with the atomic mission, however only the 509th Composite Group at Roswell AAF had modified B-29s with the capability to drop nuclear weapons.

" William Schaub of the Bureau of the Budget was particularly harsh, believing that " in every arena ," the Air Force, the Army, the Navy, the stockpiling of atomic bombs, the economy, the US was far superior than the Soviet Union.

* July 1 – A U. S. Army Air Forces B-29 Superfortress drops an atomic bomb on Bikini Atoll in the central Pacific in a nuclear test.

* The United Kingdoms first atomic bomber unit, the Royal Air Forces No. 138 Squadron, becomes operational, flying Vickers Valiants.

* October 11 – A Vickers Valiant of the Royal Air Forces No. 49 Squadron drops the United Kingdom's first air-dropped atomic bomb, over Maralinga, South Australia.

In 1976, he protested the air show held in Texas, in which the US Air Force held an imitation of the atomic attack on Hiroshima in the form of a mushroom cloud in the desert.

The W-47 Project had been the wartime operation established at Wendover Army Air Base to train the 509th Composite Group to drop the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

With the focus on atomic weapons, in early December 1946, Kirtland Field was again transferred, this time to the Air Materiel Command ( AMC ), specifically the Directorate, Research and Development, HQ, AMC.

Kirtland's role in the testing and evaluation of atomic weapons increased in 1947 when Kirtland Army Air Field, became Kirtland Air Force Base.

In response to the explosion of a Russian atomic bomb in the fall of 1949, and following the U. S .’ s new military strategy of deterrence, in December 1949 the Air Force Special Weapons Command ( SWC ) was established to develop and test atomic weapons.