Wikipedia: Strategic Air Command

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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 United States Air Force.

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.

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.

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