Word: sac
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...decision amounts to an imaginative compromise between what the Strategic Air Command wanted and what the Navy wanted. SAC proposed that all strategic weapons be brought under the command of SAC headquarters in Omaha. The Navy, which has to allow for its carriers and subs moving around from place to place, wanted its own target assignments to be left up to Navymen...
Under the Gates plan, strategic targeting will be worked out by a new interservice strategic planning committee, headquartered at SAC in Omaha and bossed by SAC Commander General Thomas S. Power. The committee's plans will go to the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who have authority to order individual commanders in all three services to follow through. The new committee will keep constant check on the interlocking U.S. strategic forces scattered around the world, keep designated targets under constant cover by one force or another. Said Secretary Gates: "The big difference in the way we're doing things...
...From the President, the order would be flashed to SAC headquarters in Omaha, which would relay it to the U.S. officer in Britain in command of U.S. warheads. From the Prime Minister, a parallel order would go to Air Marshal Sir Kenneth Cross, commander of the Thor squadrons. Air Marshal Cross would transmit the order to each Thor station. The R.A.F. officer, inserting his key in the lower slot, would start the fully automatic 15-minute countdown to nuclear...
...FOREIGN POLICY. Nixon accepted Rockefeller's pet proposal for regional "confederations." DEFENSE. Shaking off his burden of defending Administration defense policies without reservation, Nixon agreed that the "military posture" of the 1950s would not do for the 1960s, joined in a call for more and better bombers, an airborne SAC alert, more missiles, dispersed bases, greater limited-war capability and "an intensified program for civil defense." Unmentioned but implied was Rocky's old demand that the defense bill should be bigger by billions...
...invulnerable striking force capable of surviving a sneak attack-a mobile, dispersible, devastating guarantee of destruction to any enemy tempted to touch off an all-out assault. With Polaris submarines at sea, no enemy can possibly figure on knocking out U.S. power with a strike at SAC airfields and missile bases. In the long pull of cold war, Polaris will relax pressures on overseas allies, some uneasy at the provocative presence of U.S. missile sites. Polaris itself is listed as an intermediate range missile, but Polaris-plus-submarine bids to be perhaps the most effective intercontinental missile of all. Both...