[D66] Countdown To Looking Glass (1984)

[René Oudeweg]

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On 10/11/22 18:57, René Oudeweg wrote:
> 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).
>
>
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> On 10/11/22 18:45, René Oudeweg wrote:
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Looking_Glass
>>
>> On 10/11/22 18:42, René Oudeweg wrote:
>>> JUST IN - Biden "re-evaluating relationship" with Saudi Arabia after
>>> OPEC decision on oil output.
>>>
>>>
>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQzgHBjQzf4
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> #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.
>>>
>>> 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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