Word: sacs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Force leaked the news that a plane carrying an atomic bomb had crashed without setting off a nuclear explosion. Plan behind the leak: to ease British uneasiness about SAC bombers operating over the British Isles. Behind the news is the story of how U.S. scientists have worked for years to build accident-proofing devices into Atomic Age bombs so that they cannot be accidentally set off in a crash-or even by blasts of high explosives. Proof of the scientists' success is the fact that not one but at least four bomb-lugging U.S. aircraft have crashed without nuclearexplosions...
...Strategic Air Command's 2,000-odd B-47 medium-jet bombers and hundreds of heavy 6-52 intercontinental jet bombers hold an overwhelming power margin over the U.S.S.R., reported the monthly Missiles and Rockets magazine last week. The proof, said M. and R., is that SAC aircraft are conducting "numerous and continuing" reconnaissance missions over the U.S.S.R., and the Russians have not been able to stop them. "It is true that modern Russian fighters attack our bombers with major advantages of altitude, speed and maneuverability. It is also true that they score hits. But so far no attacks...
...fight for a $250 million bond issue last fall, it was over the opposition of both the regents and the governor. He battled hard to keep the liberal-arts campus of Champlain College within the university system, but the campus was turned over to the Air Force as a SAC base...
...Heavy-jawed General Curtis E. LeMay, longtime SAC commander and now Air Force Vice Chief of Staff, disclosed that a "majority" of the Strategic Air Command's aircraft were grounded for lack of fuel during the last several weeks of fiscal 1957 (ending June 30). Jolting as it was, LeMay's statement checked out. For five weeks SAC had just enough gas to get off the ground in case of actual attack, almost none to spare for training or readiness flights, although it is basic SAC policy to keep part of its bombers...
...LeMay and Air Force Chief of Staff Thomas D. White testified that lack of funds has stalled SAC's "minimum" program for dispersing its bases and improving its capacity for getting into the air fast in an alert. The Administration, said LeMay, has done nothing since Sputnik I to speed up the minimum program, or even to restore the cuts that SAC took during the Pentagon's frantic dollar pinch in the last months of fiscal...