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Revision as of 21:41, 12 November 2009
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Parent topics
- National Command Authority [r]: The combination of the U.S. President and Secretary of Defense, or their successors, who have the sole authority to authorize the use of nuclear weapons, or issue orders to Unified Combatant Commands [e]
- U.S. Department of Defense [r]: one of more than a dozen U.S. executive-managed government agencies; this one administers the military forces of the United States, and their supporting civil servants. [e]
- Strategic Forces Subcommittee, Senate Armed Services Committee [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Strategic Forces Subcommittee, House Armed Services Committee [r]: U.S. House of Representatives organization with oversight over nuclear and non-nuclear strategic forces, strategic arms control, ballistic missile defense; related intelligence programs, space programs, information warfare programs; and the United States Strategic Command and U.S. Department of Energy defense-related nuclear and environmental programs [e]
- United States intelligence community [r]: The United States' intelligence agencies coordinated by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. [e]
- Deterrence [r]: A set of policies and actions that prevent an opponent from taking an undesired action [e]
Subtopics
- Compartmented control system [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Single Integrated Operational Plan [r]: The U.S. plan and doctrine for the use of nuclear weapons in a large campaign, prepared for all services by the United States Strategic Command, based on Joint Chiefs of Staff guidance [e]
- Bomber aircraft [r]: Airplanes optimized to deliver weapons to surface targets, rather than to fight other airplanes. [e]
- Eighth Air Force [r]: The organization currently "owning" the bombers, information operations, and most intelligence aircraft of the United States Air Force; it conducted strategic bombing against Germany in the Second World War [e]
- B-2 Spirit (bomber) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- B-52 Superfortress (bomber) [r]: United States Air Force heavy bomber, first version flown in 1952, entered service in 1961, expected to stay operational until at least 2030 [e]
- Air refueling [r]: Add brief definition or description
- ARC LIGHT [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Ballistic missile [r]: A guided missile which, once its engines stop firing, follows a generally parabolic path to its target, defined by momentum, aerodynamic resistance, and gravity [e]
- Atmospheric reentry [r]: The movement of human-made or natural objects as they enter the atmosphere of a planet from outer space, in the case of Earth from an altitude above the 'edge of space.' [e]
- Intercontinental ballistic missile [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Ballistic missile submarine [r]: Add brief definition or description
- C3I-ISR [r]: Add brief definition or description
- RC-135 COBRA BALL [r]: Add brief definition or description
- RC-135 COMBAT SENT [r]: Add brief definition or description
- RC-135 RIVET JOINT [r]: Add brief definition or description
- U-2 Dragon Lady [r]: Add brief definition or description
- MQ-4 Global Hawk [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Defense Intelligence Agency [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Defense Information Systems Agency [r]: Add brief definition or description
- E-3 Sentry [r]: Add brief definition or description
- E-6 TACAMO [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Defense Threat Reduction Agency [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Air Combat Command [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Air Force Space Command [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Air warfare planning [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Ballistic missile [r]: A guided missile which, once its engines stop firing, follows a generally parabolic path to its target, defined by momentum, aerodynamic resistance, and gravity [e]
- C3I-ISR [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Classified information [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Cold War [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Countervalue [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Eighth Air Force [r]: The organization currently "owning" the bombers, information operations, and most intelligence aircraft of the United States Air Force; it conducted strategic bombing against Germany in the Second World War [e]
- Electromagnetic pulse [r]: Add brief definition or description
- F-4 Phantom II [r]: Add brief definition or description
- F. E. Warren Air Force Base [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Fourteenth Air Force [r]: Add brief definition or description
- George Kistiakowsky [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Global Information Grid [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Henry Kissinger [r]: Add brief definition or description
- James Cartwright [r]: Add brief definition or description
- James Schlesinger [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Lee Butler [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Nagasaki [r]: Add brief definition or description
- National Command Authority [r]: The combination of the U.S. President and Secretary of Defense, or their successors, who have the sole authority to authorize the use of nuclear weapons, or issue orders to Unified Combatant Commands [e]
- National Security Agency [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Nebraska [r]: Add brief definition or description
- North Dakota [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Nuclear weapon [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Offutt Air Force Base [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Operation LINEBACKER II [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Overpressure [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Satellite orbits [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Strategic Air Command [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Strategic bombing [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Strategic strike [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Tactical Air Command [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Twelfth Air Force [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Unified Combatant Command [r]: Add brief definition or description
- United States Air Force [r]: Add brief definition or description
- United States intelligence community [r]: The United States' intelligence agencies coordinated by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. [e]
- Weapons of mass destruction [r]: Add brief definition or description