What Was Americas Doomsday Plane - And could it survive Nuclear War? #W2W #shorts00:01:42
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What if Washington D.C. was wiped out in a nuclear strike? Who would launch retaliation? By the mid-1950s, that terrifying question led the U.S. Air Force to create an airborne command post the so-called Doomsday Plane.
Under a mission codenamed Looking Glass, specially modified EC-135 aircraft (converted from KC-135 tankers) were designed to function as flying Pentagon war rooms. Hardened against electromagnetic pulse (EMP) from nuclear blasts, they carried a general and a full battle staff with the authority to command Americas nuclear arsenal.
The logic was brutally simple: a ground command center can be destroyed. A constantly moving aircraft is much harder to hit.
The program was overseen by the Strategic Air Command, which believed credible retaliation required guaranteed survivability. At its height, one Looking Glass aircraft was airborne 24/7 for nearly 30 years.
It was the ultimate insurance policy of Mutual Assured Destruction.
Even if the capital burned the command to retaliate would still come from the sky.
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Under a mission codenamed Looking Glass, specially modified EC-135 aircraft (converted from KC-135 tankers) were designed to function as flying Pentagon war rooms. Hardened against electromagnetic pulse (EMP) from nuclear blasts, they carried a general and a full battle staff with the authority to command Americas nuclear arsenal.
The logic was brutally simple: a ground command center can be destroyed. A constantly moving aircraft is much harder to hit.
The program was overseen by the Strategic Air Command, which believed credible retaliation required guaranteed survivability. At its height, one Looking Glass aircraft was airborne 24/7 for nearly 30 years.
It was the ultimate insurance policy of Mutual Assured Destruction.
Even if the capital burned the command to retaliate would still come from the sky.
Join us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/TimeGhostHistory
Subscribe to our World War Two series: https://www.youtube.com/c/worldwartwo?sub_confirmation1
Like TimeGhost on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TimeGhost-1667151356690693/
Hosted by: Indy Neidell, Spartacus Olsson, Sebastian Brandtstetter, Astrid Deinhard Olsson & Anna Deinhard
Director: Astrid Deinhard
Producers: Astrid Deinhard and Spartacus Olsson
Executive Producers: Astrid Deinhard, Indy Neidell, Spartacus Olsson
Creative Producer: Iryna Dulka
Editing by: Pawel Wiszomirski
Sound design by: Marek Kamiński
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