[D66] Countdown To Looking Glass (1984)

[René Oudeweg]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZRH-k4TUuQ

It Could Nuke a Country: The E-6 Mercury is America's Deadliest Plane Ever
293.852 weergaven  6 jul. 2020

The Boeing E-6 Mercury (formerly E-6 Hermes) is an airborne command post
and communications relay based on the Boeing 707-320. The original E-6A
manufactured by Boeing's defense division entered service with the
United States Navy in July 1989, replacing the EC-130Q. This platform,
now modified to the E-6B standard, conveys instructions from the
National Command Authority to fleet ballistic missile submarines (see
communication with submarines), a mission known as TACAMO (Take Charge
And Move Out).



On 10/11/22 18:45, René Oudeweg wrote:
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Looking_Glass
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> On 10/11/22 18:42, René Oudeweg wrote:
>> JUST IN - Biden "re-evaluating relationship" with Saudi Arabia after
>> OPEC decision on oil output.
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>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQzgHBjQzf4
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>> #militaryhistory #coldwarhistory
>> "Countdown To Looking Glass" (1984) Cold-War USSR Nuclear Attack Film
>> 177.379 weergaven  27 aug. 2022  Docudrama uses fictional reports of a
>> crisis in the Middle East, which leads to a nuclear confrontation
>> between the US and the USSR.  The story is told through a live news
>> report that follows the apocalyptic world-ending nuclear exchange.  An
>> excellent, dramatic doomsday scenario in which the Cold War fully
>> escalates. "Looking Glass" is the code word for the Strategic Air
>> Command's control plane which is to be used in the case of nuclear war.
>>
>> A Canadian made-for-television movie, and the narrative of the film
>> details the events that lead up to the initial exchange of nuclear
>> weapons, which was triggered by a banking crisis, from the perspective
>> of an ongoing news broadcast.
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>> The nuclear powered aircraft carrier U.S.S. Nimitz portrayed in this
>> movie is actually the museum ship U.S.S. Yorktown (ex CV 10) moored in
>> Charleston Harbor, Charleston, South Carolina.  Starring Scott Glenn,
>> Michael Murphy, Helen Shaver as Dorian Waldorf, Eric Sevareid (as
>> himself) and a young Newt Gingrich (as himself).
>>
>> First aired on October 14, 1984.  For education, entertainment,
>> enlightenment and inspiration.
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