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HAER NE-9-A (sheet 1 of 1) - Offutt Air Force Base, Looking Glass Airborne Command Post, Looking Glass Avenue between Comstat Drive and Nightwatch Avenue, Offutt Air Force Base, Bellevue, Sarpy County, NE
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Hess, Roise and Company, contractor
Wegman-French, Lysa, transmitter
Fraser, Clayton B, photographer
Roise, Charlene K, historian
Curran, Christine A, historian
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HAER NE-9-A (sheet 1 of 1) - Offutt Air Force Base, Looking Glass Airborne Command Post, Looking Glass Avenue between Comstat Drive and Nightwatch Avenue, Offutt Air Force Base, Bellevue, Sarpy County, NE
Depicted place Nebraska; Sarpy County; Bellevue
Date Documentation compiled after 1968
Dimensions 24 x 36 in. (D size)
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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
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HAER NE-9-A (sheet 1 of 1)
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  • Significance: From the end of WWII until the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, U.S. military policy was driven by the Cold War, and epic conflict between the superpowers of the U.S. and the Soviet Union. Under the constant threat of a nuclear first strike from the Soviet Union, the Strategic Air Command (SAC) launched an airborne command post that would guarantee retaliation should SAC's underground headquarters at Offutt Air Force Base be incapacitated by a nuclear attack. Named "Looking Glass" because it mirrored the capabilities of the underground facility, the mission began round-the-clock operations in 1961...
  • Survey number: HAER NE-9-A
  • Building/structure dates: 1958-1972 Initial Construction
Source https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/ne0072.sheet.00001a
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Object location41° 08′ 12.01″ N, 95° 53′ 26.01″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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