FALLOUT SHELTER NYC IS AN ATTEMPT TO FIND AND CENTRALIZE THE ATOMIC HISTORY OF THE NYC AREA AND THE EASTERN SUBURBS OF LONG ISLAND NY AND THE NUCLEAR GENIE THAT BEGGED TO BE LET LOOSE AND ITS ATOMIC MASTERS THE US NUCLEAR FORCES - DECLASSIFIED-DESANITIZED- ARCHIVAL FILM FOOTAGE,PICTURES,STORIES FROM THE COLD WAR TELLING THE STORY OF A WAR THAT WAS ANYTHING BUT COLD-THE CIVIL DEFENSE, THE STRATEGIC DEFENSE ,THE NATIONAL DEFENSE ,THE ARMED DEFENSE ,AND THE OTHER SIDE OF THE FENCE
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WELCOME- THIS BLOG HAS MANY POSTS THAT CAN BE FOUND ABOVE IN THE TABLE OF CONTENTS, I TRY TO ADD THINGS MONTHLY SO ALWAYS CHECK BACK. THE MAIN SECTION OF FALLOUT SHELTER NYC DOES START HERE AND YOU CAN SCROLL ALL THE WAY DOWN TO THE BOTTOM OF THIS PAGE AND FIND DOZENS OF DECLASSIFIED NUCLEAR TEST MOVIES AND CIVIL DEFENSE FEATURES, THERE ARE LOTS OF POSTS TO GO THROUGH AND YOU WILL FIND SOMETHING GUARANTEED THAT WILL HAVE YOU COMING HERE MORE, SO DECONTAMINATE ,FIND YOUR BEDDING AREA AND RECEIVE YOUR SHELTER RATIONS WHO KNOWS HOW LONG YOU WILL BE HERE FOR.
THESE VARIOUS FACTORY SCHEMATICS AND US MILITARY AIR DEFENSE DOCTRINE IS FROM BOEING's OWNER MANUAL FOR THE USAF AND US ARMY ARADCOM EXPLANATION AND SOME COLD WAR ERA PLAYBOOK CHAIN OF COMMAND FOR NORTH AMERICAN MILITARY GROUND TO AIR ROCKET/MISSILE UNITS
RARE PHOTOGRAPH OF USAF BOMARC MISSILE INSIDE LAUNCH SHED AT SUFFOLK COUNTY AFB
HERE IS A BOMARC LAUNCH FROM ITS SHED LAUNCHER SHOWN IS THE BOMARC INTERCEPTION A DRONE AIRCRAFT AND DETONATING ITS ATOMIC WARHEAD WHEN IT INTERCEPTS IT'S TARGET
BOEING BOMARC MANUAL SHOWING SUFFOLK COUNTY AFB AND SUFFOLK COUNTY SIXTH AIR DEFENSE SQUADRON USAF
BOMARC LAUNCH SHED
MAP OF BOMARC AREA AND GAT LOCATION
US ARMY AIR DEFENSE COMMAND MISSION
SAGE BUILDING AT BOMARC BASE
MISSILE VEHICLE FOR DELIVERY AND MOBILE INSPECTION VEHICLES
BOMARC LAUNCH SHED TYPE 2 SPECS
US ARADCOM NIKE MISSILE DEFENSE UNIT MANUAL US ARMY ORGANIZATION AND DOCTRINE ALSO IFF RULES AND EXPLANATION OF SAGE - SEMIAUTOMATIC GROUND ENVIRONMENT AND DETECTION_ IDENTIFICATION_INTERCEPTION_ DESTRUCTION CHAIN OF ENGAGEMENT
THE LAUNCH OF A US ARMY ARADCOM NIKE HERCULES MISSILE AT A TARGET TRAVELING TWICE THE SPEED OF SOUND.THE NIKE HERCULES LAUNCHES AND CATCHES THE TARGET AT 60,000 FEET WHERE IT DETONATED ITS NUCLEAR WARHEAD THE NIKE COULD INTERCEPT AS HIGH AS 150,000 FEET
DUE TO THE NATURE OF ATOMIC WEAPONS CHANCES ARE YOU MAY BE VAPORIZED OR BURNED BEYOND RECOGNITION AND LIKE EVERYTHING THAT IS SOLD YOU GOT TO BE ABLE TO CONVINCE PEOPLE THEY CANNOT LIVE WITHOUT BUYING YOUR PRODUCT, CONVINCING PEOPLE THAT IF AN ATOMIC ATTACK OCCURS DURING THE DAY WHILE YOUR CHILDREN AREN'T HOME YOU MAY NEVER SEE THEM AGAIN AND THE ODDS OF IDENTIFYING A CHARRED BODY WITH NOTHING RECOGNIZABLE LEFT IS A HORROR ITSELF! SO THE COMPANIES WHO PEDDLED THESE DOG TAGS FOR YOUR CHILD THAT COULD SURVIVE NUCLEAR HELLFIRE AND IF GOD FORBID THE ENEMY ATTACKS THESE TAGS WILL LET YOU FIND YOUR LOVED ONES WITH NO PROBLEM ONLY IF THEY HAVE A SET OF THESE METAL ID TAGS IT WILL HELP OTHERS RETURN LITTLE JANE OR JOHN HOME TO YOU IF THEY WERE WOUNDED OR LOST AFTER AN ATTACK ON OUR NATION ,INDESTRUCTIBLE ID WHAT EVERY CHILD NEEDS IN THE ATOMIC AGE! AND THESE TAGS SOLD AND GAINED IN POPULARITY, KIDS ALL OVER AMERICA WORE THESE TYPES OF ID TAGS DURING THE 1950's-60's THE ONLY OTHER ID THAT WAS MARKETED WAS A TATTOO OF YOUR CHILD'S SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER UNDER THEIR ARM AND NOT TOO MANY PARENTS OR KIDS WANTED TO GO TO THAT LENGTH!
I WANT TO THANK WHOMEVER POSTED THESE PICTURES BECAUSE BEING ABLE TO LOOK BACK IN TIME AND SEE THE ACTIVITY AND AIRCRAFT IS SO RARE AND THEIR HAS NOT BEEN MANY PHOTOS OF SUFFOLK IN IT'S COLD WAR ADC DAYS THE US AIR FORCE MUSEUM ARCHIVES HAD NOTHING AS DID LOCAL AVIATION MUSEUMS AND GROUPS SO THE FACT THAT THESE ARE BEING SHARED WITH THOSE INTERESTED IS A PRIVILEGE AND A HONOR
F-101 VOODOO ALL WEATHER INTERCEPTOR
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THE F-86 WAS PART OF THE ADC MISSION 1955-1959
A F-102 DELTA DAGGER AT SUFFOLK COUNTY AFB 1960's
F-100 SUPER SABRE
SUFFOLK COUNTY AIR FORCE BASE FLIGHTLINE A VERY ACTIVE PLACE ON ALERT ALL THROUGH THE COLD WAR F-101 F-106/102s SAT IN ALERT HANGARS AT IDLE AWAITING A SCRAMBLE HORN AND UPON ALERT THE PILOTS RACED OUT TO THEM AND GOT AIRBORNE WITHIN MINUTES AS RADAR OPERATORS AT MONTAUK AIR STATION DIRECTED A FLIGHT OF INTERCEPTORS AT ANY UNIDENTIFIED "BOGEY" IN US AIRSPACE OR FLYING CLOSE TO ANY OF THE MANY RESTRICTED AREAS ON AND OFF LONG ISLAND, MOSTLY THESE ALERTS WOULD FIND A COMMERCIAL OR PRIVATE AIRCRAFT WITH THEIR TRANSPONDER OR "IFF" IDENT FRIEND OR FOE OFF, AND SOMETIMES A SOVIET "BEAR" STRATEGIC BOMBER WOULD WIND UP IN US AIRSPACE PROBABLY BECAUSE THEIR MAPS AND ELECTRONICS SUCKED AND UPON IDENTIFICATION WOULD BE ESCORTED OUT TO INTERNATIONAL AIRSPACE, MOST STORIES I HAVE HEARD OF THESE ENCOUNTERS TALKED OF SOVIET BOMBER CREWS WAVING OR TRYING TO COMMUNICATE WITH THE INTERCEPTOR CREWS AND TAKING WHAT PROBABLY WAS PERSONAL PHOTOGRAPHS.EVEN WITH THESE EVENTS DURING 1966 SUFFOLK SCRAMBLED THEIR WING AT UNIDENTIFIED LIGHTS MOVING AT HIGH RATES OF SPEED MAKING NO NOISE OR NO ENGINE WAS HEARD,FAA HAD NOTHING FLYING OVER THE SOUTH SHORE OF LONG ISLAND MILITARY OR CIVILIAN. SUFFOLK COUNTY PD WAS BARRAGED WITH REPORTS OF THESE LIGHTS AND FIFTH PRECINCT OFFICERS ON PATROL ALSO CONFIRMED THE LIGHTS TRAVELING EAST TOWARDS THE AFB AND THE NUCLEAR BOMARC FACILITY, INTERCEPTORS ARRIVED ON SCENE IN MINUTES AND SAW NOTHING AND THE STRANGE LIGHTS VANISHED! THERE WERE MANY REPORTS OF UFOs BETWEEN 1949 - 1970 WITH ONE CRASHING AT SOUTH HAVEN PARK 10 MILES WEST OF THE AIRBASE NOW CALLED GABRESKI IN THE 1990s ALSO IN THE 1960s USAF CONTACTED SUFFOLK COUNTY POLICE STATING A AIR TO AIR MISSILE WITH A ARMED WARHEAD WAS LOST AROUND THE SOUTHSHORE OF L.I. AND TO KEEP A EYE OUT FOR IT, I NEVER HEARD OR READ IF IT WAS EVER FOUND....
A UNITED STATES AIR FORCE F-102 INTERCEPTOR WING SCRAMBLES OUT TO WAITING AIRCRAFT AND ARE AIRBORNE IN MINUTES
F-102 DELTA DAGGER SUFFOLK COUNTY AFB 1960 **NOTICE THE 52nd FIS SEEK ATTACK DESTROY ON TAIL OF JET
F-100 SUPER SABRE PROBABLY ON ITS WAY OVER TO SOUTH VIETNAM TO DROP LOTS OF ORDNANCE
THIS ADC F-102 MAKES CONTACT WITH A SOVIET "BEAR" BOMBER LOADED WITH NUCLEAR WEAPONS AND A LIST OF TARGETS OFF OUR EASTERN SEABOARD, IT WILL BE HANDED OFF MANY TIMES TO VARIOUS ADC WINGS UNTIL IT IS FAR FROM OUR BORDERS
SUFFOLK COUNTY AIR FORCE BASE WAS A AIR DEFENSE COMMAND BASE AND WAS IN DIRECT CONTACT WITH NORAD AND "THE HOLE"STRATEGIC AIR COMMAND HQ AT OFFUT AFB NUCLEAR WEAPONS WERE ON EVERY ALERT AIRCRAFT SCRAMBLED DURING A INTERCEPT ALERT UPON CONFIRMATION OF A UNIDENTIFIED RADAR CONTACT THESE ATOMIC WARRIORS WOULD USE THEIR AIR TO AIR NUCLEAR WEAPONS THEN IF THEY HAD TO GET CLOSER AND USE THE CANNONS TO BRING DOWN THE ENEMY AIRCRAFT UPON LAST RESORT THEY WOULD USE THEIR F-101/102/or106 AND RAM THE ENEMY AIRCRAFT WITH THEIRS.
THE ALERT HANGARS IN A RARE PHOTO SHOWING THE F-101 VOODOO INTERCEPTOR CANOPIES OPEN AND LADDERS IN PLACE UPON THE ALERT HORN THE PILOTS IN FLIGHT SUITS WOULD RUN OUT AND GET IN THEIR AIRCRAFT AND LEAVE THE ALERT HANGAR AND GET AIRBORNE WITH THEIR DUAL EXHAUST PIPE MAKING A LOUD BOOM AS THE AFTERBURNERS KICKED IN SENDING THIS AIRCRAFT AIRBORNE IN UNDER 5 MINUTES HERW A SUFFOLK COUNTY AFB F-101 LETS A ATOMIC GENIE AIR 2 AIR ROCKET FLY DURING A LIVE FIRE EXERCISE IT IS NOT KNOWN IF THIS PARTICULAR DRILL WAS PART OF ANY ATOMIC TESTING
THIS USAF NUCLEAR WEAPON PROCEDURE CHART SHOWS A F-106 USING A AIR 2 AIR NUCLEAR MISSILE AND THE PROCEDURE PILOTS NEEDED TO TAKE TO AVOID THE ATOMIC FLASH AND RADIATION PULSE FROM THIS TYPE OF WEAPON DETONATING NOT TO MENTION IF ANY OTHER ATOMIC WEAPONS ABOARD THE TARGET AIRCRAFT WERE TO DETONATE.THIS TYPE OF DRILL WAS IMPORTANT TO USAF PILOTS SO THEY DID NOT GET CAUGHT IN THE WEAPONS EFFECTS THAT COULD DAMAGE THE AIRCRAFT OR GIVE THE PILOT A LETHAL DOSE OF RADIATION THAT WOULD KILL HIM IN HOURS AFTER THE FLASH FROM THE DETONATION OF THE AIR 2 AIR MISSILE
AMERICA READIES IT'S CIVIL DEFENSE UNITS FCDA FUNDING
VARIOUS COMPANIES FOUND A NEW MARKET SUPPLYING EQUIPMENT TO FEED THE COLD WAR PARANOIA
AMERICA FULLY CONVINCED THAT COMMUNIST ATOMIC WEAPONS WERE READY TO FALL ON THEIR CITY AT ANY MINUTE HELPED CREATE A BOOMING CIVIL DEFENSE INDUSTRY AND CONGRESS ALLOCATED THE MONEY TO EQUIP AMERICA, MANY OF TODAYS MODERN CONVEINENCES WERE DIRECTLY A RESULT OF COLD WAR TECHNOLOGY SUCH AS THE INTERNET YOU ARE USING RIGHT NOW, DURING THE COLD WAR MILITARY BRANCHES NEEDED A NETWORK OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION AVAILABLE IN REAL TIME SO A NETWORK OF COMPUTERS WERE SET UP TO FILL THIS NEED AND THE DATA AND COMPUTERS THAT WERE PART OF THIS NETWORK FILLED EXTREMELY LARGE SPACES, ENTIRE BUILDINGS AND DATA WAS STORED ON REELS OF MAGNETIC TAPE THAT TODAY THE SAME SETUP WOULD FIT IN A WALK IN CLOSET! AS FUNDING WAS BUYING MORE AND MORE EQUIPMENT THEY WERE REQUIRED TO IDENTIFY EQUIPMENT PURCHASED WITH THESE FUNDS, THE IDENTIFICATION LABEL ABOVE BECAME MANDATORY TO AFFIX TO ANY CIVIL DEFENSE FUNDED EQUIPMENT FROM HELICOPTERS TO RADIO'S. THIS TAG WAS ON EVERYTHING AND IF YOU COME ACROSS SURPLUS FROM THE COLD WAR YOU MOST LIKELY WILL FIND THIS ATTACHED
(1968) USAF SURVIVE TO FIGHT ATOMIC WEAPON HITS ADC BASE JETS SCRAMBLE INTERCEPT SOVIET ATTACKERS
THIS IS A CLASSIC UNITED STATES AIR FORCE TRAINING FILM THAT IS BASED ON SURVIVABILITY OF USAF BASE OPERATIONS IN THE CONTINENTAL UNITED STATES AFTER A NUCLEAR ATTACK,BASES LIKE THIS ONE WERE SCATTERED THROUGHOUT THE UNITED STATES DURING THE COLD WAR PERIOD THE AMOUNT OF PRESSURE AND RESPONSIBILITY THESE MEN HAD HAD HANDLING NUCLEAR WEAPONS THAT WERE USED ON INTERCEPTOR AIRCRAFT ,THE # AM SCRAMBLES INTO THE WINTER NIGHT NOT KNOWING IF THIS WAS FOR REAL AS BASE AIRCRAFT PEELED OUT LAUNCHING IN PAIRS SC REAMING INTO THE WINTER NIGHT WAITING FOR WORD OF WHAT WAS GOING ON. THE AIRMEN AT THESE BASES KNEW ANY ATTACK ON THE US THEY WOULD BE AMONG THE FIRST TO KNOW AND FIRST TO GO WHILE THE COMMUNITIES OUTSIDE THE GATES NEVER KNEW HOW CLOSE THEY WERE TO WAR AS THE BASES WENT TO DIFFERENT DEFCON LEVELS, THIS WAS NOT INFORMATION FOR THE PUBLIC.
THE FILM STARTS AT NIGHT AND THE SAC AIR DEFENSE COMMAND LAUNCHES ITS F-101 INTERCEPTOR AIR CRAFT AND PREPARES TO RIDE OUT A NUCLEAR STRIKE AS CONFIRMATION OF INCOMING MISSILES IS CONFIRMED. THANKS TO A CLIMATE OF GUARDED DEFENSE THE AIR FORCE BASE IS ABLE TO BUILD DEFENSIVE AND SHELTER FACILITIES TO SURVIVE AND FIGHT AND AS A NUCLEAR DETONATION IS CONFIRMED ON BASE THE AIR FORCE BEGINS TO DEAL WITH THE PROBLEMS SO ITS AIR WING CAN COME BACK AND RE-ARM AND RE-FUEL A GREAT SUBJECT THAT U.S. MILITARY FORCES HAD TO PLAN FOR AND TRAIN AND THIS FILM SHOWS WHAT THEY EXPECTED, THE REAL QUESTION IS IT REALISTIC IN ITS EXPECTATION?
THE ONE THING IS THAT IT IS PRICELESS THAT THE USAF MADE THIS TRAINING FILM AND ITs QUOTES LIKE "HAVE NO UMBRELLAS,IF IT STARTS TO RAIN WE WILL LET YOU KNOW." AND "YOU CALL US BECAUSE IF YOU DON'T WE WILL BE CALLING YOU" WEIRD,.. BUT STILL GREAT PROPAGANDA!FILMED AT A SAC AIR DEFENSE INTERCEPTOR BASE LOCATED IN OXNARD, OXNARD AFB CALIFORNIA 1967 THIS IS BASICALLY WHEN CLOSING OF SAC ADC BASES WAS GOING ON ALL OVER (SUFFOLK COUNTY AFB LONG ISLAND NEW YORK) RESPONSIBLE FOR THE NYC AREA FOR MOST OF THE COLD WAR.DURING 1968- EARLY 1970s MOST OF THESE AIR FORCE ADC UNITS WENT OVER TO FIGHT IN VIETNAM AND THAILAND AS FORWARD AIR CONTROL AND MUNITION LOADERS FOR USAF STRIKE PLANES USING IRON BOMBS INSTEAD OF ATOMIC MUNITIONS BOMBING NVA BASES AND NORTH VIETNAM AND THE ADC PILOTS AND BACKSEATERS WENT OVER ALSO, TO ME THESE GUYS REALLY SERVED THEIR COUNTRY PLUS ONE AND DESERVE BIG RESPECT , MY HATS OFF TO THE USAF AIRMEN OF ADC/SAC AND VIETNAM/THAILAND/LAOS
NYC EMERGENCY BROADCAST PLEASE STAND BY FOR OFFICIAL INFORMATION (1980-1984)
USAF/SAC AT DEFCON ONE AND CONFIDENCE IS HIGH! "EXECUTIVE DESCISION" USAF'S NUCLEAR POSTURE
PROBABLY THE MOST TELLING STORY OF USAF MIGHT AND POWER AS WAR IS UNLEASHED ON THE AGRESSOR NATION WHO IS LATER IDENTIFIED TO BE THE SOVIET UNION, THE STOCK FOOTAGE OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS BEING DROPPED BY B-47 STRATOJETS and B-52 BOMBERS ARE FROM ONCE CLASSIFIED USAF NUCLEAR TEST OPS. MOST OF THIS ENTIRE FILM IS FROM CLASSIFIED WARPLANS AND SPECIAL OPERATIONS, THIS HOMAGE TO SAC AND STRATEGIC AIR COMMANDS DEDICATION TO MISSION IS A JEWEL AND FROM A TIME WHERE THE WORLD WAS A TINDERBOX READY FOR SOMEONE TO STRIKE THE SPARK AND IGNITE A WORLDWIDE NUCLEAR CONFLAGRATION WHERE LIFE MOST LIKELY WOULD OF WENT THE WAY OF THE DINOSAUR AND ONLY MILLIONS OF YEARS LATER A FOSSILIZED REMAINS OF MAN WOULD BE DISCOVERED BY THE NEXT GENERATION THAT CAME FROM THE ASHES OF THE OLD, THIS FILM IS NOT KNOWN IF IT WAS EVER SEEN OR VIEWED OTHER THAN A HANDFUL OF HIGH RANKING USAF OFFICERS, SEE THE DESCRIPTION AND INFORMATION FROM THE NUCLEAR VAULT.COM
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"The Power of Decision" may be the first (and perhaps the only) U.S. government film dramatizing nuclear war decision-making. Commissioned by the Strategic Air Command in 1956, the film has the look of a 1950s TV drama, but the subject is the ultimate Cold War nightmare. By the end of the film, after the U.S. Air Force has implemented war plan "Quick Strike" following a Soviet surprise attack, millions of Americans, Russians, Europeans, and Japanese are dead. The narrator, a Colonel Dodd, asserts that "nobody wins a nuclear war because both sides are sure to suffer terrible damage." Despite the "catastrophic" damage, one of the film’s operating assumptions is that defeat is avoidable as long as the adversary cannot impose its "will" on the United States. The film’s last few minutes suggest that the United States would prevail because of the "success" of its nuclear air offensive. Moscow, not the United States, is sending out pleas for a cease-fire.
The conviction that the United States could prevail was a doctrinal necessity because Air Force leaders assumed the decisiveness of air power. The founding fathers of the U.S. Air Force came out of World War II with an unshakeable, if exaggerated, conviction that the strategic bombing of Germany and Japan had been decisive for the Allied victory and that air power would be crucial in future conflicts. (Note 1) The film’s title: "Power of Decision" embodies that conviction. The title itself is a reference to a 1948 statement by General George C. Kenney, the Strategic Air Command’s first commander-in-chief: "A war in which either or both opponents use atomic bombs will be over in a matter of days...The Air Force that is superior in its capability of destruction plays the dominant role and has the power of decision." (Note 2) A confident statement made by one of the characters, General "Pete" Larson, near the close of reel 6 flows from that assumption: the Soviets "must quit; we have the air and the power and they know it."
The story begins with Colonel Dodd, standing in the underground command post of the "Long Range Offense Force" (oddly, the Strategic Air Command is never mentioned by name). Dodd discusses the Force’s strike capabilities, its mechanisms for keeping track of its strategic assets, and its war plans. That hundreds of bombers, based in U.S. territories and overseas bases, are ready to launch at a moment’s notice is the "surest way to prevent war." Dodd does not think that the Soviets are likely to strike, but if deterrence fails and the Soviets launch an attack, "this is what will happen."
What "happens" is the initial detection by U.S. air defense network of the approach of Soviet bombers over the Arctic Circle. That leads to General Larson’s decision to launch the SAC alert force under plan "Quick Strike"; airborne and nuclear-armed alert bombers fly toward the Soviet periphery, but stay at position until they receive an attack order (this was the concept of "Fail Safe" or "Positive Control" although those terms were not used in the film). About an hour after the alert force is launched, General Larson receives reports of attacks on U.S. bases, followed by more information on Soviet nuclear attacks on cities and military bases in Japan and Western Europe. "That does it," General Turner (one of Larson’s deputies) exclaims. He soon receives a call on the red phone from the Joint Chiefs, who with the President, are in a protected command post. The president has ordered the execution of "Quick Strike," releasing bombers and missiles to strike the Soviet Union. This simultaneous bomber-missile "double punch" is aimed at "all elements of [Soviet] air power" [bomber bases] along with "war making and war sustaining resources," which meant strikes on urban-industrial areas and urban populations. To depict the undepictable, the film’s producers use stock footage of nuclear tests and missile and bomber launches.
Once it is evident that the Soviets have launched a surprise air attack, Colonel Dodd observes that "By giving up the initiative, the West must expect to take the first blow." This statement is not developed, but for Air Force planners, "initiative" meant a preemptive attack or a first strike. By the early 1950, senior military planners and defense officials had begun considering the possibility of pre-emptive attacks on the basis of strategic warning; that is, if the United States intelligence warning system collected reliable information on an impending Soviet attack, decision-makers could approve strikes against Soviet military forces to disrupt it. Consistent with this, Strategic Air Command war plans assumed "two basic modes" for executing strike plans [See Document One below]. () One was retaliation against a surprise attack; the other "plan was based on the assumption that the United States had strategic warning and had decided to take the initiative." The SAC strike force would then be "launched to penetrate en masse prior to the enemy attack; the main target would be the enemy’s retaliatory capability."
In the last part of reel 6, Air Force intelligence briefings review the destruction of the Soviet military machine, including destruction of air bases, weapons storage centers, and government control centers, among other targets. "Target M," presumably Moscow, has "been destroyed" by a nuclear weapon which struck 300 yards from the aiming point. The Soviet attack has done calamitous damage to the United States, with 60 million casualties, including 20 million wounded, but evidence was becoming available of the "success" of the U.S. air offensive. The Soviet Air Force has been reduced to a handful of aircraft, it had stopped launching nuclear strikes outside of its territory, and SACEUR [Supreme Allied Commander Europe] reports the "complete disintegration of resistance" by Soviet ground forces. Moreover, cease-fire requests are coming in from the Soviets. In this context, General Larson’s certainty that the "Soviets must quit" conveyed prevailing assumptions about the value of strategic air power.
Around the time when "The Power of Decision" as being produced, a statement by SAC Commander-in-Chief General Curtis LeMay made explicit what was implicit in Larson’s observation. In an address before the Air Force’s Scientific Advisory Board in 1957 [see Document Two], LeMay argued that U.S. strategic forces could not be an effective deterrent unless they were "clearly capable of winning under operational handicaps of bad weather and no more than tactical warning." And by winning, LeMay said he meant "achieving a condition wherein the enemy cannot impose his will on us, but we can impose our will on him." Larson’s statement about control of the air dovetailed exactly with LeMay’s assumptions about winning.
Little is known about the production and distribution of "The Power of Decision," or even if it was actually shown. According to the history of the Air Photographic and Charting Service for January through June 1957, on 28 May 1956, the Strategic Air Command requested the service to produce the film, which would be classified Secret. SAC leaders may have wanted such a film for internal indoctrination and training purposes, to help officers and airmen prepare themselves for the worst active-duty situation that they could encounter. Perhaps the relatively unruffled style of the film’s performers was to serve as a model for SAC officers if they ever had to follow orders that could produce a nuclear holocaust. In any event, the script for "Power of Decision" was approved on 10 May 1957 and a production planning conference took place on 29 May 1957. The contract productions section of the Air Photographic and Charting Service was the film’s producing unit.
The next step was to find actors with security clearances because even the synopsis of the film was classified secret (although later downgraded to "official use only"). As the Air Force was not in the business of hiring actors, the production unit engaged the services of MPO Productions, a New York-based firm which produced commercials and industrial films. [References to MPO, Inc. are on the index cards and on "The End" frame at the close of reel 6]. What happened next, when the work on the film was completed, SAC’s assessment of the project, and whether, when, or where the film was shown, cannot presently be determined, although the information may be in the living memories of participants or viewers from those days.
Note: The relatively poor quality of this digital reproduction reflects the condition of the original reels as turned over to the National Archives by the Air Force.
PROPAGANDA No.2 "Your New Sound Of Freedom"
PUBLISHED FOR BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF THE MISSION OF THE USAF AIR DEFENSE COMMAND AND THATS TARGETED FOR LONG ISLANDERS WHO LIVED NEAR SUFFOLK COUNTY AIR FORCE BASE IT WAS A PRIMARY ADC SQUADRON THAT WAS TO INTERCEPT ANY SOVIET BOMBERS OR OTHER UNIDENTIFIED AIRCRAFT OF UNKNOWN ORGIN, SUFFOLK AFB BECAME PRIMARY WHEN FLOYD BENNET FIELD CLOSED AND CEASED OPERATIONS, THE CONVAIR F102-F-106 DELTA DART AND DAGGER WERE THE MAIN INTERCEPT AIRCRAFT FROM 1958-62 WHEN THE USAF DECIDED TO USE THE F-101 VODOO ALL WEATHER INTERCEPTOR, THE F-102-106 WAS USED BY THE USAF AT SUFFOLK AS WELL AS MANY OTHER AIRCRAFT THAT WOULD COME THROUGH THE AIRBASE, EARLY POSTS ON THIS BLOG HAS NUMEROUS PHOTO'S OF THESE DART LIKE AIRCRAFT AT THE BASE, THE EARLIER AIRCRAFT WERE F-86 SABRES AND THEY WERE PHASED OUT IN 1958, THERE WERE A FEW LOST AIRCRAFT OUT OF SUFFOLK AND EVEN A FALCON AIR TO AIR MISSILE AND THE INFAMOUS 1966 "STRANGE LIGHTS MOVING AT HIGH SPEEDS OVER THE SOUTH SHORE OF LONG ISLAND" THE AD WAS TO DEFEND THE MISSION OF THESE AFB'S LOCATED IN SUBURBS AROUND THE U.S. WHO HAD THE JOB OF SCRAMBLING AND GREET ANY UNIDENTIFIED RADAR CONTACT.THROUGH THE END OF WORLD WAR 2 UP UNTIL 1970 THE STRATEGIC AIR COMMAND HAD THESE BASES SCATTERED AROUND MAJOR CITIES AND VITAL US DEFENSE CONTRACTORS, SINCE THESE AIR WINGS WERE ON ALERT THEY FLEW OUT CONSTANTLY AND 6-7 IN FORMATION FLYING LOW IS LOUD SO SUBURBAN AMERICA COMPLAINED ABOUT THE NOISE AND THE USAF AND CONVAIR STARTED A ADVERTISING CAMPAIGN TO INFORM AND EDUCATE JUST HOW IMPORTANT THAT SOUND IS. AND HOW LUCKY WE ARE TO HERE IT. DURING THE 1970s to PRESENT USAF/ADC AND OTHERB MILITARY BASES WERE CLOSED BY THE HUNDREDS, IMAGINE A CITY LIKE NEW YORK HAS NO AIR DEFENSE THE NEAREST ARMED AIRCRAFT IS 30 MINUTES AWAY , AND MOST CITYS ARE NO LONGER DESIGNATED MILITARY PROTECTION, THIS MAKES NO SENSE SINCE OUR MILITARY IS TO DEFEND THE CONTINENTAL UNITED STATES AND I REALLY DO NOT UNDERSTAND HOW OUR NATION CAN FORGET WHY WE HAVE ARMED FORCES. THEY ARE NOT FOR FIGHTING ON FOREIGN SOIL AND IF WE HAVE TO WE CAN SEND B-52S ON BOMBING MISSIONS, WE NEED TO LOOK BACK AT WHAT THIS NATIONS FOUNDATIONS WERE AND REBUILD IT, BECAUSE SOMETHING IS NOT RIGHT!
- Meeting the Terrorist Threat, Produced by the Defense Nuclear Agency - Early 1970's - 7:30 - Color - Since the emergence of the terrorist threat, the U.S. Governments concern about the possible terrorism against nuclear facilities has intensified. This video is a dramatization. It shows how the Government has responded to this threat.
The video depicts nuclear security activities at an early nuclear storage site and how a small unarmed force of intruders easily enters under the security fence surrounding the site. The protective force subdues the intruders easily. In another scene, a well-armed terrorist team enters the base and kills a roving patrol with a well-placed sniper. Security forces finally overcome the terrorists after a superior counter-force arrives.
On a third entry, a terrorist team enters the site under the cover of a fellow terrorist, hidden in the forest, armed with a heavy machine gun. This terrorist team reaches and penetrates a storage igloo after the roving patrol is killed, and the rapid response force is destroyed. However, the terrorists do not escape. When the superior security force appears with helicopter support and an armored personnel carrier, the terrorists, including the machine gunner, are killed.
Since this film was made, the Department of Energy (DOE) has constantly improved the training and tactics of the security forces at each installation as well as the in-place security systems. With its modern day posture, it would be highly improbable that a small group of armed individuals could forcibly enter any DOE facility and escape with a nuclear weapon or any special nuclear
NEW!!!! ----GREAT FALLOUT SHELTER SONG 1961
(1975) RARE FOOTAGE OF ANG F-102s BASED AT SUFFOLK AFB (DECOM) FLYING OVER LONG ISLAND
THIS VIDEO SHOWS NATIONAL GUARD 2nd FIS FLYING F102s OVER EASTERN LONG ISLAND THE FLIGHT SCENES ARE DUBBED WITH A HORRIBLE MUSIC SOUNDTRACK "HIGHWAY TO THE DANGER ZONE" SO I ADVISE THAT YOU MUTE THE SOUND WHILE WATCHING THIS LAST OF THE CENTURY FIGHTERS BEING FLOWN AS INTERCEPTORS AND NOT TARGETS FOR MISSILE TESTS, THE SUFFOLK AFB NOW GABRESKI AIRPORT WESTHAMPTON HOME NOW TO THE 106th AEROSPACE RESCUE AND RECOVERY WING WHO OCCUPY AND USE THE OLD ALERT HANGARS AND USAF INFRASTRUCTURE THAT THE STRATEGIC AIR COMMAND "ADC" LEFT BEHIND WHEN THE SUFFOLK COUNTY AIR BASE WAS DECOMMISSIONED, EVEN THEN A NATIONAL GUARD UNIT USING F-102s WAS BASED THERE FROM 1969 - PRESENT.RARE CAMOFLAUGE F102s
*UPDATE THE F-102 THAT SAT OUT FRONT TO PAY RESPECT TO THOSE THAT SERVED THE COLD WAR MISSION AND FLEW JET AIR CRAFT LOADED WITH LIVE NUCLEAR WEAPONS WAS SCRAPPED AND CUT UP ON BASE BY A SCRAP YARD IN A TOTAL DOUCHE BAG MOVE! I DONT CARE HOW BAD OF SHAPE IT WAS IN IT COULD OF BEEN SAVED AND SHOULD OF.JUST BECAUSE THE MISSON NOW INVOLVES HELICOPTERS YOU DONT FORGET HISTORY AND TRY TO TAKE THE LIME LIGHT BY DROPPIN A HELICOPTER IN ITS SPOT, YOU DISRESPECTED THOSE THAT SERVED A WAR COLD IN NAME BUT WAS A DIRECT THREAT AGAINST THIS NATION AND THOSE WHO FLEW THOSE JETS DURING THOSE YEARS WOULD OF GAVE THEIR LIVES TO KEEP THE POPULATION OF THIS COUNTRY SAFE, IT MAKES ME SAD TO SEE SUCH DISRESPECT AND PERSONALLY YOU CAN STICK THAT HELO UP YOUR ASSES!
COLD WAR PROPAGANDA No.41 (1951) USAF CARTOON RECRUITING COMMERCIAL
THIS USAF COMMERCIAL FROM THE EARLY 1950s MOST LIKELY WAS THE REASON AMERICA WON THE COLD WAR AND BEAT THE SOVIETS IN TO SPACE THE JINGLE IN OF FLYING DAH DAH DAH WITH CARTOON JETS AND PEOPLE PROBABLY CAUGHT THE EYE OF MANY YOUNG KIDS WHO TEN YEARS LATER ENLISTED AND HELPED KEEP THIS COUNTRY FREE OF ANY COMMUNIST AGGRESSORS, WE NEED MORE GOOD WHOLESOME RECRUITING PITCHES LIKE THIS ONE!
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