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Strategic Air Command (view source)
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No one has yet adduced any hard evidence that either scenario could possibly have played out during the Cold War era. However, Broyhill<ref name=Broyhill/> maintains that any of a number of human beings at SAC could have yielded to panic during the Cuban Crisis and for years afterward--and speaks with high praise of everyone in SAC because this did not happen.
No one has yet adduced any hard evidence that either scenario could possibly have played out during the Cold War era. However, Broyhill<ref name=Broyhill/> maintains that any of a number of human beings at SAC could have yielded to panic during the Cuban Crisis and for years afterward--and speaks with high praise of everyone in SAC because this did not happen.
===SAC Major Military Base: A Likely [[Nuclear target structures|Nuclear Target Structure]]===
SAC formerly being a major [[United States Armed Forces]] military base with [[nuclear weapon]] capabilities made it one of the [[Nuclear_target_structures#Primary_Targets|primary targets]] among the world's major [[nuclear target structures]] in a possible [[nuclear war]]<ref>[http://www.nti.org/country-profiles/united-states/nuclear/ ''Nuclear Country Profile''], [[Washington, DC]]: Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI), Last updated: May, 2014. Accessed January 15, 2015</ref>. SAC formerly being a "[[first strike]]" [[nuclear war]] target was mostly due to [[missile]] silos, [[bomber]] bases, and command and control (C2) centers. The enemy must neutralize these [[asset]]s immediately to prevent or minimize American nuclear or other military retaliation.
== Relevant Lists ==
== Relevant Lists ==
[[Category:Cold War]]
[[Category:Cold War]]
[[Category:United States Air Force]]
[[Category:United States Air Force]]
[[Category : Nuclear Target Structures]]