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Format is approximately 10.5 inches by 8 inches, folded in half, with text on the first and third panel. Ink notation on second panel and check marks on agenda. This was prepared for Members of the Division of International Security Affairs, Atomic Energy Commission who visited on March 10 and March 11, 1974. Scarce AEC and SAC related visit ephemera. The agenda included an forecast of the Strategic Air Command (1974-1984), a briefing on the Soviet Strategic Posture, the B-1 Concept of Employment, Minuteman III High Yield RV Considerations, New Full Fusing Options (FUFO) Requirements, a Discussion with Brigadier General J. W. Burkhart (later Major General John W. Burkhart, deputy chief of staff for operations, Headquarters Strategic Air Command) and ending with a courtesy call on Major General Martin G. Colladay. He became chief of staff for SAC Headquarters in March 1974. Lieutenant General Martin G. Colladay became the deputy chairman, Military Committee, North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Brussels. General John Charles Meyer (April 3, 1919 - December 2, 1975) was an American World War II flying ace, and later the commander-in-chief of the Strategic Air Command (SAC) and director of the Joint Strategic Target Planning Staff at Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska. SAC was the United States' major nuclear deterrent force with bombers, tankers and reconnaissance aircraft, and intercontinental ballistic missiles. The Joint Strategic Target Planning Staff coordinated the nation's nuclear war plans and developed the Single Integrated Operations Plan (SIOP). Strategic Air Command (SAC) was both a Department of Defense Specified Command and a United States Air Force (USAF) Major Command (MAJCOM), responsible for Cold War command and control of two of the three components of the U.S. military's strategic nuclear strike forces, the so-called "nuclear triad," with SAC having control of land-based strategic bomber aircraft and intercontinental ballistic missiles or ICBMs (the third leg of the triad being submarine-launched ballistic missiles (SLBM) of the U.S. Navy). SAC also operated all strategic reconnaissance aircraft, all strategic airborne command post aircraft, and all USAF aerial refueling aircraft, to include those in the Air Force Reserve (AFRES) and Air National Guard (ANG). SAC primarily consisted of the Second Air Force (2AF), Eighth Air Force (8AF) and the Fifteenth Air Force (15AF), while SAC headquarters (HQ SAC) included Directorates for Operations & Plans, Intelligence, Command & Control, Maintenance, Training, Communications, and Personnel. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus.
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