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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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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

Mind you, the Air Force's Strategic Air Command was lobbying for 10,000 ICBMs so it could have been worse!

From Salon • Mar. 6, 2022

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

At the Air Force’s Strategic Air Command headquarters in Omaha, Nebraska, the SAC commander marched down a concrete ramp into the earth.

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

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