WHY AT OFFUTT AIR FORCE BASE (AFB)?
Offutt Air Force Base has served as the home of our nation’s nuclear weapons targeting and command headquarters for over 56 years. Formerly the Strategic Air Command, after the end of the Cold War the command headquarters was expanded to the Strategic Nuclear Command (STRATCOM). While there are no nuclear weapons stationed at Offutt AFB, STRATCOM is the operational command center for all land, air and sea strategic nuclear weapons systems. No nuclear missile silos can be activated, no Trident Submarine can set sail or B52 Bombers fly without STRATCOM’S approval. STRATCOM at Offutt AFB holds the whole world under a threat of global nuclear annihilation every day, every hour, every minute of the year. As if the targeting of 8,000 nuclear weapons were not horrific enough, on Oct. 1, 2002, the US Military Space Command was added to this hellish mission. With the addition of the US Military Space Command, the STRATCOM command facility now has the mission and ability to initiate and direct w
