Word: sacs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...forgers' most sustained efforts followed a 1957 Khrushchev newspaper interview deploring the "dangers" of SAC's airborne alert system: "when planes with hydrogen bombs aboard take off, that means that people will be in the air piloting them. There is always the possibility of a mental blackout . . ." Shortly thereafter, the so-called "Berry letter" surfaced in East Berlin's Neues Deutschland. In it, U.S. Assistant Secretary of Defense, Dr. Frank B. Berry, was "caught" reporting to his chief, Neil McElroy, that "we have obtained statistics showing that 67.3% of U.S.A.F. personnel are psychoneurotic, involved in sexual ercesses...
...tactical starts) with nuclear warheads, before it can answer a number of fundamental questions about deterrence. Is a non-nuclear war in the area possible? Nobody has a certain answer, but the most likely is No, it is not. And the argument that to give SHAPE as well as SAC the power to push buttons would be absurdly dangerous is singularly persuasive, however sure the U.S. is that the Supreme Commander will always be an American. Another point that Kennedy might well consider is that disarmament negotiation will embarrass the West significantly more if it alters Europe's status...
...assignment of Polaris targets under control of the Strategic Air Command. The Navy, claiming the need for seagoing expertise, wanted Polaris targeting left up to Navymen. In another day the fight would have boiled out into angry headlines. But Gates set up the interservice strategic target team, headed by SAC Commander General Thomas S. Power, to keep track of all U.S. strategic forces and make sure that every essential target is covered by one force or another at all times...
...Republican primary candidate won the required majority, the party's nomination had to be made by the state convention. But on the hustings, Roman Catholic Miller showed himself a fluent speaker and shrewd public relations man. An Air Force Reserve colonel trained in the Plans Section of SAC, Miller is a specialist in farm tax law, a tireless advocate of tax reform and economy in government...
...floor of the House: "The leadership of the American Legion has not had a constructive thought since 1918." Noting wryly in passing that he had "learned a good deal about the Legion, especially since 1949," Legionnaire Kennedy then delivered a call for stronger defenses-suggested an airborne SAC alert, called for a crash program for Polaris and Minuteman missiles, a jet airlift for the country's conventional armed forces. Judging by applause, the Legion rated Jack Kennedy as its third choice-behind J. Edgar Hoover and Dick Nixon, who made headlines with a speech proposing a U.S. veto...