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.