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The '''Post-Attack Command and Control System''', or '''PACCS''', was a set of United States military systems designed to ensure that [[National Command Authority]] would retain sole, exclusive, and complete control over US nuclear weapons. Among other components, it included [[Strategic Air Command]] assets such as the [[Looking Glass (airplane)|LOOKING GLASS]] aircraft and mission, and various hardened [[command and control]] facilities such as [[The Notch]].

The '''Post Attack Command and Control System''' ('''PACCS''') was a network of communication sites (both ground and airborne) for use before, during and after a nuclear attack.

The belief by the [[Soviet Union]] in the reliability of PACCS was a crucial component of the US [[mutual assured destruction]] doctrine, ensuring a long term [[stalemate]].

==Components==

===Airborne===

*[[EC-135]] Airborne Command Post (ABNCP) "Looking Glass"

*[[E-4B]] National Emergency Airborne Command Post (NEACP)

*[[B-47 Stratojet#B-47Es|EB-47L]]

===Ground===

*[[Barksdale AFB]], [[Louisiana]] (Command Post)

*[[Westover AFB]], [[Massachusetts]] (Command Post)

*[[March AFB]], [[California]] (Command Post)

*[[Grissom ARB|Grissom AFB]], [[Indiana]]

==See also==

*[[The Cold War]]

*[[Survivable Low Frequency Communications System]] ([[Survivable Low Frequency Communications System|SLFCS]])

*[[Game theory]]

*[[Ground Wave Emergency Network]] ([[Ground Wave Emergency Network|GWEN]])

*[[Continuity of government]]

*[[Minimum Essential Emergency Communications Network]] ([[Minimum Essential Emergency Communications Network|MEECN]])

*[[Emergency Rocket Communications System]] ([[Emergency Rocket Communications System|ERCS]])

==References==

==External links==

*[http://members.aol.com/sacacca/paccspatches.html WWABNCP/PACCS patches]

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