Strategic air command

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Cold War Air Defense Relied on Widespread Dispersal of Nuclear Weapons, Documents Show

To counter a Soviet bomber attack, U.S. war plans contemplated widespread use of thousands of air defense weapons during the middle years of the Cold War according to declassified documents posted today at the National Security Archive?s Nuclear Vault.

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Humberto Luis