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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#Looking_Glass|LOOKING GLASS]] aircraft and mission, and various hardened [[command and control]] facilities such as [[The Notch]].

The belief by the [[Soviet Union]] in the reliability of PACCS was a crucial component of the US [[mutually-mutual assured destruction]] doctrine (ensuring a long term [[stalemate]]; see also, [[game theory]]).

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