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...Conversion of 20 more KC-1355 and four 6-473 to build up the Strategic Air Command's own force of airborne control centers. Since last February, SAC has kept one of three such centers constantly...
...Skybolt's advocates insist on comparing their bird with Minuteman and Polaris, claim its critics, they are on shaky ground. Skybolt is more elusive than a land missile only when it is airborne. But the cost of keeping a B-52 fleet aloft is immense -and a SAC base is a much softer target than a hardened silo. A nuclear submarine may move slowly, but it can be deployed within striking range of its targets for months without refueling and at low cost...
Safeguards. Under Minuteman's failsafe system, an order to fire flashes from the President to Strategic Air Command headquarters at Nebraska's Offutt Air Force Base. High SAC officers throw a switch that opens an electronic lock on the missile flight. They call the two control officers. The two, sitting 15 ft. apart, pick up separate telephones to receive, decode and authenticate the orders. Each must agree that it is a valid command. They go through a launch sequence in unison, break lead seals on their console buttons. The birds still will not fire until another...
...same time, SAC greatly increased the number of B-52 bombers-usually about 50%-on 15-minute ground alert. Dozens of SAC's B-52s fully armed with nuclear bombs flew 24-hour alerts; none was allowed to land until its replacement was in the air. And a special alert went out to most of the crews of the U.S.'s 156 operational intercontinental ballistic missiles (102 Atlases and 54 Titan I missiles...
Puerto Rico. SAC...