Strategic Air Command
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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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
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
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
When Gen. Curtis LeMay whipped a motley postwar bomber force into the fearsome Strategic Air Command, it depended on American proficiency in midair refueling.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 12, 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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