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Operation Chrome Dome

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During the Cold War, General Thomas S. Power initiated a program whereby B-52s performed airborne alert duty under code names such as Head Start, Chrome Dome, Hard Head, Round Robin, and Operation Giant Lance. Bombers loitered near points outside the Soviet Union to provide rapid first strike or retaliation capability in case of nuclear war. America and Canada wanted a way of limitedly retaliation against the USSR if an attack feat was detected coming over the North Pole on the DEW Line or when the bombs began falling in Florida, Germany and S. Korea.

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America and Canada wanted a way of limitedly retaliation against the USSR if an attack feat was detected coming over the North Pole on the DEW Line or when the bombs began falling in Florida, Germany and S. Korea. Plans were soon thought up by people like General Thomas S. Power in which which B-52 Stratofortress strategic bomber aircraft armed with thermonuclear weapons remained on continuous airborne alert, flying routes to points on the Soviet Union border. The would loiter near points outside the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia to provide rapid first strike or retaliation capability in case of a nuclear war. During the Cold War, General Thomas S. Power initiated a program whereby B-52s performed airborne alert duty under code names such as Head Start, Chrome Dome, Hard Head, Round Robin, and Operation Giant Lance. Bombers loitered near points outside the Soviet Union to provide rapid first strike or retaliation capability in case of nuclear war.