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DTIC ADA465956: The Air Force and the Cold War

This publication presents 11 chapters that discuss varying aspects of Air Force participation in the Cold War. Chapter 1, Iron Curtain, focuses on the challenge in Europe, containment, the Berlin Airlift, and atomic air power. Chapter 2, Massive Retaliation, examines National Security Council-68 (NSC-68) strategy report, the Korean War, National Security Council-162/2 (NSC-162/2), and the pact with NATO. Chapter 3, Strategic Force, discusses the hydrogen bomb, the Strategic Air Command (SAC), the Air Defense Command (ADC), the Composite Air Strike Force (CASF), and ICBMs. Chapter 4, Nuclear Strategies and Concepts, focuses on Khrushchev's fanning of the fires, counterforce and countervalue, missiles and bombers, and the space program. Chapter 5, High Noon, looks at the U-2 incident, Bay of Pigs, the Berlin Wall, and the Cuban Missile Crisis. Chapter 6, Flexible Response, discusses nuclear options, conventional forces, domino theories, and the Vietnam War. Chapter 7, (Mutual) Assured Destruction, examines the McNamara strategy, retreat from superiority, and parity. Chapter 8, Detente, focuses on essential equivalence, arms control, China, nuclear options and strategies, the Brezhnev

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