Chrome Dome 1960–68In 1960, SACs B 52s began a nonstop, eight year, nuclear armed patrol. Fully illustrated, this study explains how one of the Cold Wars most challenging operations was conceived and flown. Operation Chrome Dome was Strategic Air Command's unprecedented nuclear deterrence operation, a hugely elaborate and costly response to the perceived nuclear missile threat from the Soviet Union. In this book, Cold War aviation historian Peter E. Davies explains how