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Operation Crossroads, the 1946 atomic bomb tests at Bikini Atoll, Power was assigned as assistant deputy task force commander for air on Admiral William H. P. Blandy's staff. Then came assignments as deputy assistant chief of air staff for operations in Washington and a period of air attach duty in London, prior to his transfer to the Strategic Air Command as vice commander in 1948. During the next six years, Power assisted General Curtis E.

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Power stated: “Therefore, from a deterrent point of view, I believe it to the national advantage that the high degree of readiness of this command be made known, within the bounds of security, to all members of the Communist Bloc, and particularly, the Soviet Union. ” In spite of the CINCSAC’s strong appeal, the Secretary of Defense never replied to his letter. However, portions of the CINCSAC’s proposals were included in a November DOD news release after the Cuban crisis ended. I witnessed that night over Tokyo was so overwhelming that it left a tremendous and lasting impression on me

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indicates that Power’s broadcast in the clear of DEFCON 2 was not likely to have met with McNamara's approval, and adds weight to the hypothesis that it been done as was originally indicated by Garthoff and Sagan (but later retracted by Sagan) as a way to get his way without specifically disobeying orders. Also, Sagan's newer statement does not indicate why General Power would have been aware that civilian agencies were told of the DEFCON 2 status in the clear. LeMay, then commander in chief of the Strategic Air Command, in building up SAC.

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Power sought to have the DOD’s position [of withholding information about SAC’s state of maximum readiness] modified in order to strengthen the nation’s current and future security in dealing with incidents of a similar nature. With this objective in mind, he proposed on 2 November that four major SAC activities in support of the Cuban quarantine be publicly released Advised of DOD’s disapproval, on 7 November General Power requested the Secretary of Defense to release the information He was then appointed commander of the Air Research and Development Command in 1954, a position he held for three years.

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to the United States in August 1944, he was named commander of the 314th Bomb Wing (Very Heavy) and promoted to brigadier general in January 1945. Power moved his B-29s to Guam in December 1944 as part of the 21st Bomber Command. From Guam, he directed the first large-scale fire bomb raid on Tokyo, Japan, on March 9, 1945. In a command aircraft, flying back and forth over Tokyo during the attack, Power was deeply impressed by the inferno of destruction playing out thousands of feet below. He later commented, "True there is no room for emotions in war but the destruction.
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