# " COMMAND AND CONTROL " U.S. ARMY SACCS COLD WAR COMPUTER NETWORK FOR STRATEGIC COMMAND 29434

View our Amazon store here: https://amzn.to/3XQHsVD Dating from the late 1960s and presented by U.S. Air Force Strategic Air Command, “Command and Control” is a U.S. Air Force film that profiles the command and control systems developed for national defense, including the early versions of the ITT 465L / SACCS system. The film includes shots of various mainframe computers and communications equipment, including integrated networks that helped foment what we now know as the Internet. The film contains some fascinating images including shots of communications centers, top secret documents, early IBM mainframe computers, command staff, the Air Force Chief of Staff, the War Room, tactical displays, and more. The Strategic Automated Command and Control System (SACCS) is a United States Strategic Command command and control system to coordinate the operational functions of United States nuclear forces (ICBMs, nuclear bombers, and SLBMs). Film opens, Department of the Air Force seal and opening credits (0:06). Different badges and pins on uniforms denoting rank and position (0:28). Fleet of Republic F-105 Thunderchiefs (1:04). McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II flies through sky (1:29). Plume of smoke and fire as rocket soars into sky (1:38). Appears as if a Boeing 747 assisting rocket in flight (1:54). Bustling command center with mainframe computers and various communications technology (2:02). Footage of perhaps one of the Atlas Able launches 1960s (2:08). Fictitious scenario…

- Kind: Film
- Genres: War, Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/29434CommandAndControl)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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