![]() Washington, D.C., Ma- Last month’s posting by Robert S. His numerous publications include The Logic of Accidental Nuclear War (Washington, D.C: Brookings, 1993). Bruce is the Co-Founder of Global Zero, an international movement seeking the universal elimination of nuclear s. In 1999, he was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship Prize for his work on nuclear arms control. Congressional Office of Technology Assessment from 1982 to 1985, and from 1987 to 2000 was a senior fellow in the Foreign Policy Studies Program at the Brookings Institution, Washington D.C. Air Force Minuteman intercontinental ballistic missile launch control officer (1972-74), as a project director at the U.S. ![]() Blair is a Research Scholar at Princeton University’s Program on Science and Global Security. In the early 1970s, when I served as a support officer for the SAC Airborne Command Post ("Looking Glass") and then as a Minuteman II ICBM missile launch officer, the basic procedures (Emergency War Orders) outlined in the 55 th SRW “Checklist” for 1964 remained the same, but the message flag words of the Emergency Action Messages (EAMs) used to generate and execute the missions of strategic bomber and reconnaissance aircraft, Minuteman missiles, and ballistic missile submarines (SSBNs) had changed in fundamental ways.īruce G. The document and the commentary are illuminating and brought to mind my experience with SAC nuclear operations during the following decade. ![]() Robert Hopkins has done a public service by unearthing and publishing the 55 th Strategic Wing EWO Checklist for 1964. Update How SAC Would Have Gone to Nuclear War in the 1970s
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