Alert operations and the Strategic Air Command 1957-1991 - Offutt Air Force Base, Neb.: Office of the Historian, SAC, 1991 - 98p.

Strategic Air Command was established to deter communist aggression, prevent nuclear warfare, and wage the Cold War. A history of the SAC, which entered the battle in March 1956 and had relied on the alert force as its primary tactic since October 1957.

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STRATEGIC AIR COMMAND
COLD WAR