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Line 3: 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]]. [[File:PACCS peacetime orbit areas 1972.PNG\|right\|300 px\|Peacetime Orbits of PACCS aircraft]] ==History== The [[Strategic Air Command]] headquarters staff, under the direction of General [[Thomas S. Power]] conducted the feasibility of placing a continuous command and control element in an airborne mode. The purpose of such a system would be to use the aircraft as a platform for specially installed communications equipment to insure delivery of command directives to [[Strategic Air Command\|SAC]] strike forces in the event ground-based headquarters were destroyed.

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