[Milsurplus] Old CPUs - Now strategic war

[Mike Morrow]

I wrote:

> ...once the submarine-launched ballistic missile became fully operational
> in the very early 1960s, the USAF should have removed itself from the
> strategic weapons delivery scene except for delivery of high yield devices
> via missile.

Mac wrote:

> There's one very big difference, Mike.
> 
> It IS possible to recall a bomber attack!

Except that in the 1960s and later, SIOP likely NEVER planned a response 
to attack by the principal adversary that began with strategic bombers,
to be followed only later by the other two legs of the triad.  If the land-
and submarine-launched missile legs have responded, it would be pointless
to recall manned bombers except to preserve their crews after the other
two legs have already worked their magic.  That's good for their crews
(assuming they can find a place to land) but valueless to correct a SIOP
dispatching mistake!  :-)

But my comments in no way disparage the USAF crews, whom I admire greatly.
I grew up not far from a SAC B-52 base, in Arkansas with 18 Titan II silos
in the northern half of the state.  I hope the post nuclear holocaust
survivalists of 40 years ago weren't expecting to hold out in the Ozarks! :-)

Mike / KK5F