Operation Chrome Dome - Wikipedia
Several high-profile nuclear accidents were associated with the "Chrome Dome" program, including the accidental release of nuclear weapons on foreign territory, and it was shut down …
The Perils of Chrome Dome | Air & Space Forces Magazine
Aug 1, 2011 · A final accident in January 1968 ended the Chrome Dome missions altogether. “A recovery team is searching for wreckage from an American Air Force B-52 bomber, armed …
Chrome Dome 1960–68 - Osprey Publishing
Operation Chrome Dome was Strategic Air Command's unprecedented nuclear deterrence operation, a hugely elaborate and costly response to the perceived nuclear missile threat from …
Operation Chrome Dome - This Day in Aviation
Jan 21, 2025 · As a result of these two nuclear accidents, referred to by the code words “Broken Arrow,” Operation Chrome Dome, which had kept armed B-52s in the air 24 hours a day since …
Chrome Dome 1960–68: The B-52s' high-stakes Cold War nuclear …
Sep 10, 2024 · Operation Chrome Dome was Strategic Air Command's unprecedented nuclear deterrence operation, a hugely elaborate and costly response to the perceived nuclear missile …
Operation Chrome Dome the Cold Wars Secret Nuclear Airborne …
Jul 20, 2023 · Under Chrome Dome, a rotating fleet of B-52 Stratofortress bombers armed with thermonuclear weapons would take off from bases in the United States and fly predetermined …
Peter E. Davies’s ‘Chrome Dome 1960-68’ - Warfare History Network
Operation Chrome Dome kept nuclear-armed B-52 bombers in the air on a constant basis for eight years, showing the Soviet Union how America could swiftly retaliate against any …
Remembering Operation Chrome Dome, the 1960’s airborne alert …
Mar 15, 2020 · By 1961 General Power openly announced SAC conducted airborne alert missions, codenamed Chrome Dome, with nuclear-armed B-52s or BUFFs, meaning Big Ugly …
Operation Chrome Dome | Military Wiki | Fandom
Operation Chrome Dome, initiated in 1960, was one of several United States Air Force Cold-War era airborne global alert duties or programs in which B-52 Stratofortress strategic bomber …
Operation Chrome Dome - Wikiwand
"Chrome Dome" is the best-known of the SAC airborne alert programs, in part because several high-profile "Broken Arrow" nuclear weapons accidents became associated with it, including …