Word: sacs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Twentieth Century (CBS, 6:30-7 p.m.). How do you stop an enemy missile? It's done, if at all, with NORAD, SAC, BMEWS, DEW, MIDAS and SAMOS...
Citizens everywhere should protest the SAC airborne alert. This is not only an aggressive and dangerous act, but essentially a propaganda and money-getting grab by the Air Force...
...common-sense appraisal makes it patently apparent that neither Russia nor anyone else could launch an attack that would simultaneously knock out all 1,500 planes, 100 SAC bases, ships at sea, submarines, and 300-odd overseas bases, including rocket sites. If they are that good, neither twelve planes nor 120 planes will "save...
...Pacific, men from Navy patrols check in on the trust territory islands of Agrihan, Pagan, Aquijan, Sarigan. In the Mediterranean, while Russian "trawlers" trail the Sixth Fleet like beggars, sailors call at Tobruk to deliver and dedicate playground equipment for Libyan children. In a tightly guarded basement room at SAC headquarters in Omaha, hand-picked intelligence officers feed information on weather, geography, fuel and aerodynamics into beady-eyed monster machines that crank out 16 million computations, and then read the results into the ready ICBMs that form part of the U.S. retaliatory force...
...Fifty-percent increase in the Strategic Air Command's ground-alert program and maintenance of a twelve-plane airborne alert (TIME, March 17). SAC base warning systems will be improved, and various satellite-borne detection programs (e.g., Samos, Midas) and command-post communications networks will get a shot...