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Strategic Air Command

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noun

  1. a U.S. Air Force command charged with intercontinental air strikes, especially nuclear attacks.


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B-52 bombers, the backbone of the Air Force’s Strategic Air Command, were produced here, too.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 22, 2023

Strategic Air Command crews taxied B-52 bombers to their runways and loaded them with dummy bombs that looked remarkably like the real thing.

From Slate • Oct. 24, 2022

So, on the way to getting a judgment on that I served at an Air Base in California called Castle Air Base, which was the training base for Strategic Air Command.

From MSNBC • Oct. 9, 2019

When Jonathan was six years old, the Air Force wanted to improve its public image by making his father a general in the Strategic Air Command.

From Salon • Sep. 21, 2019

Once I had run away to the Strategic Air Command Base in a nearby town to see if they would allow me to become a pilot.

From "Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High" by Melba Pattillo Beals

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