Post-Attack Command and Control System

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. PACCS was 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 aircraft and mission, and various hardened command and control facilities.

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)
• EB-47L

Ground

• Barksdale AFB, Louisiana (8th Air Force Command Post)
• Westover AFB, Massachusetts (Command Post)
• March AFB, California (15th Air Force Command Post)
• Grissom AFB, Indiana
• Offutt AFB, Nebraska (SAC Command Post)
• East Auxiliary Command Post (East AUXCP) - (Location?)<REF>
• West Auxiliary Command Post (West AUXCP) - (Location?)

See also

• Survivable Low Frequency Communications System (SLFCS)
• Ground Wave Emergency Network (GWEN)
• Minimum Essential Emergency Communications Network (MEECN)
• Emergency Rocket Communications System (ERCS)
• The Cold War
• Game theory
• Continuity of government

External links

• WWABNCP/PACCS patches

References