Soon three big, eight-jet B-52 SAC bombers streaked into view in tight formation, peeled off and landed a minute apart, their huge brake parachutes billowing from their tails.

Originally designed by Boeing to neutralize SAM threats and improve the survivability of SAC’s manned bomber force, the mission of the AGM-69 expanded to include selected strategic targets.

Since then, SAC has learned how to get B-52 heavy-jet and B-47 medium-jet bombers airborne, hydrogen bombs in their bellies, within an astonishing seven minutes of alarm klaxon’s howl (including ...

SACRAMENTO -- A person of interest has been arrested in relation to recent explosions in South Sacramento that resulted in property damage, according to Sacramento Police Department. Together with ...

At SAC bases around the world, both air and ground crews raced to get every flyable bomber and tanker “cocked.” The Strategic Air Command of the 1960s was a highly trained and disciplined ...

Sacramento was home to over 7,000 Japanese Americans who were sent to interment camps during the war. ... Sailors blocked traffic, bombers from the nearby air bases buzzed the city in celebration.

A 1960 Strategic Air Command training video familiarized B-52 crews with the ... Screenshots from the video showing the B-52 during the fictional nuclear strike and a B-57 bomber navigating ...