Strategic Air Command

Strangelove on the Square: Secret USAF Films Showed Airmen What to Expect if Nuclear War Broke Out

Air Force training films, with their bloodless procedural guidance for launching armageddon, provide a surreal insight into the Cold War that put Kubrick's absurdism to shame (yes, HNN will feature Dr. Strangelove-related content at any opportunity). 

Power to Rule the Skies: A Forgotten Innovator of the Strategic Air Command

by Brent D. Ziarnick

General Thomas S. Power should emerge from the shadow of his mentor Curtis LeMay as a leader of the United States Strategic Air Command at the critical moment in the dawn of the Cold War.