Strategic Air Command

The Strategic Air Command is the branch of the United States Air Force that is in charge of America's non-submarine-based nuclear arsenal. Established in March 1946, with headquarters at [Offutt Air Force Base]?, Nebraska, with its bomber force. The Strategic Air Command symbolized the cornerstone of American national strategic policy, namely, deterrence?--deterrence in order to prevent any use of the growing nuclear arsenal of the Soviet Union.

It was renamed the [U.S. Strategic Command]? in 1992 after the fall of the [Berlin wall]?, and now incorporates the Naval nuclear forces as well as those of the Air Force.

Links:

• [Stratcom]