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Strategic Air Command

American  

noun

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


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She was the first female to command an all-male squadron with the Strategic Air Command.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 12, 2021

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

In fact, for many years after, the top-secret nuclear war plans, devised by the Strategic Air Command, explicitly called for an American first strike, regardless of how the war started.

From Slate ● Jul. 31, 2019

If the order to attack was to come, it would be in the form of a six-character string of letters and numbers sent by radio from Strategic Air Command in Omaha.

From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin

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