"Strategic Air Command" or, SAC, was the acronym for the oh so robust sounding branch of the Air Force that kept the Evil Empire at bay for nearly half a decade until disbanded in 1992. According to the Wikipedia, General Curtis Lemay took over the Strategic Air Command in 1948 Under LeMay's command, SAC became the cornerstone of American national strategic policy during the Cold War with the Soviet Union. This policy was based primarily on nuclear deterrence. In 1962 there were 282,723 personnel assigned (217,650 airmen, 28,531 civilians and 38,542 officers). SAC's motto became "Peace is Our Profession," symbolizing the intention to maintain peace through the threat of overwhelming force.
Ah yes-- the good 'ole days when the US was in the driver's seat, and recognized that the best way to make sure the enemy stays where they belong and not cause mischief was to make sure they feared you. Yessiree, with such tools at our disposal like the SAC, America truly had sack! Again from Wikipedia,
LeMay was not a great believer in mutually assured destruction (MAD): he felt strongly (particularly in SAC's early years, when Soviet nuclear capability was still in its formative stages) that SAC should be prepared to carry out a preemptive and overwhelming attack on the USSR before the Soviets had a chance to do the same to the United States.
This is exactly the way I view the whole Islamic problem we see right here in the present. With the chief protagonist, Iran, feverishly running the clock in pursuit of nuclear ambition, the race is on to see who will be the first to be at the receiving end of the next atomic attack. I prefer it to be THEM, not us! Make no mistake about it-- our radical and fanatical enemies, fueled by a warped twisting of religious fervor will make every attempt to use such a device to help foment the implementation of a worldwide Islamic Caliphate...
