Strategic Air Command

American  

noun

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

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Example Sentences

He later served as a flight instructor at Tuskegee Army Airfield in Alabama and at Lockbourne Air Force Base near Columbus, Ohio, which by then was integrated, and qualified as a Strategic Air Command B-47 bomber pilot.

From New York Times

We knew about the bombers of Strategic Air Command, too.

From Seattle Times

He had the good sense to ignore Curtis LeMay, the Air Force chief of staff and head of the Strategic Air Command, as well as the model for Gen. Jack D. Ripper in "Dr. Strangelove," who urged Kennedy to bomb the Cuban missile bases, an act that would have probably ignited a nuclear war.

From Salon

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

Ukraine’s air command said 33 missiles were fired in all — 17 missiles from “at least 10” bombers from Russia’s strategic air command, and 16 missiles from ships in the Black Sea.

From Washington Post