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  2. Nuclear command and control - Wikipedia

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    Nuclear command and control (NC2) is the command and control of nuclear weapons.The U. S. military's Nuclear Matters Handbook 2015 defined it as the "activities, processes, and procedures performed by appropriate military commanders and support personnel that, through the chain of command, allow for senior-level decisions on nuclear weapons employment."

  3. Operation Candid - Wikipedia

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    Operation Candid: Protection of the Royal Family in an Emergency was a Cold War contingency plan of the British Government to evacuate Queen Elizabeth II, the Duke of Edinburgh and other members of the British royal family from London in the event of nuclear war. [1]

  4. 498th Nuclear Systems Wing - Wikipedia

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    The Mace was a third-generation tactical USAF missile, a follow-up of the MGM-1 Matador which had been developed in the late 1940s and early 1950s from the World War II-era Republic-Ford JB-2. Two of the unit's World War II bomb squadrons were reactivated, the 873d and 874th Tactical Missile Squadrons to man and operate the missile sites.

  5. Nuclear weapons of the United States - Wikipedia

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    The President can give a nuclear launch order using their nuclear briefcase (nicknamed the nuclear football), or can use command centers such as the White House Situation Room. The command would be carried out by a Nuclear and Missile Operations Officer (a member of a missile combat crew, also called a "missileer") at a missile launch control ...

  6. List of World War II military operations - Wikipedia

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    Alsos ("Grove") (1940–1945) – Allied efforts to gather data on German nuclear fission developments. Big (1945) – capture of an atomic pile at Haigerloch. Harborage (1945) – US sweep up of German atomic assets ahead of French occupation. Epsilon (1945) – Eavesdropping on incarcerated German scientists.

  7. Regional seat of government - Wikipedia

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    In the aftermath of the nuclear attack on Hiroshima and the Soviet Union's development of nuclear weapons, it was clear that London could not survive a nuclear bombardment. Although considerable effort still went into secret construction of military citadels under London , the solution was to disperse the machinery of government into small ...

  8. Single Integrated Operational Plan - Wikipedia

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    The Single Integrated Operational Plan (SIOP) was the United States' general plan for nuclear war from 1961 to 2003. The SIOP gave the President of the United States a range of targeting options, and described launch procedures and target sets against which nuclear weapons would be launched.

  9. Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force - Wikipedia

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    Starting in April 1951 when the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) cannibalised WUDO, it was put under the command of Supreme Allied Commander Europe Dwight D. Eisenhower in Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE; Allied Command Europe [ACE]), comprising many of the same allies that were part of SHAEF. WUDO, followed by SHAPE ...