Strategic Air Command

Strategic Air Command or SAC was a United States Armed Forces command responsible for the maintenance of the United States nuclear arsenal.

Background
Although rendered extinct by the Great War, with its headquarters permanently offline by 2241, automated SAC manufacturing facilities and automated cargobots and vertibots and continued to manufacture and deliver nuclear keycards to Appalachia, after the Appalachian Automated Launch System was tricked by Enclave President Thomas Eckhart into believing a land invasion of the United States mainland was underway. These convoys would then be intercepted by Enclave troops and later Vault Dwellers for use in the region's automated nuclear launch silos.

Appearances
The Strategic Air Command is mentioned in Fallout 2 and Fallout 76.

Behind the scenes
The Strategic Air Command was a real world division of the Department of Defense, closing in 1992.