Talk:Operation Chrome Dome

The Primary mission section contains an editor's first-person anecdotes from their experience at Loring AFB. 88Dutchman (talk) 15:38, 8 September 2016 (UTC)

Someone add Dr. Strangelove (film) to the See Also section

Being new here, I'm chary to start adding things, having screwed up a couple times in the past. The film Dr. Strangelove should be added to the See Also section alongside the movie Fail Safe. The situation in Dr. Strangelove is almost identical to the Chrome Dome missions; B-52s flying near Soviet airspace, armed and ready to enter. Dr.gregory.retzlaff (talk) 19:36, 1 April 2022 (UTC)

I went ahead and did it, I think it's a no-brainer edit Dr.gregory.retzlaff (talk) 04:18, 4 April 2022 (UTC)

Operation chrome dome

One of the units that was not included as a participant was the 320th Bomb Wing, Mather AFB California. They flew “F” model bombers until 1968. I was stationed there from 1965 to 1969 and supported Operation Chrome Dome. MSgt Sichler (retired) 68.72.216.136 (talk) 04:24, 17 January 2023 (UTC)

Some errors

While looking into the 1961 Goldsboro B-52 crash I found that the start date for Chrome Dome was on 6 November 1961. There were several other airborne alert operations prior to that in 1961: "Cover All" (15 January-31 March), "Clear Road" (1 April-30 June), "Keen Axe" (1 July-30 September), and "Wire Brush" (1 October-5 November). Chrome Dome was originally conceived asa significant revision of the previous flight paths to avoid over-saturating them as more and more bombers were added, and to avoid Canadian overflights, apparently.

The most useful source on this:

• "History of Headquarters Strategic Air Command 1961 (SAC Historical Study no. 89)" (PDF). 1962. pp. 60–61, 180–181.

This also means that neither Goldsboro nor Yuba City were accidents that happened under Chrome Dome; they were both part of Cover All.

This info should be incorporated into the article. I don't think these "predecessor" plans need their own articles; there is not a lot of info on them out there, and Chrome Dome is the main show for SAC airborne alert in the 1960s. NuclearSecrets (talk) 19:00, 19 October 2023 (UTC)