Strategic Air Command 
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SOURCE: National Security Archive
3/20/2023
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).
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3/21/2021
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.
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