[Carl Vehse]

Developer of the Strategic Air Command, Gen. Curtis LeMay, provided many enjoyable (if not apocryphal) quotes, such as at a Senate hearing when asked why, with already enough nuclear bombs to reduce the Soviet Union to cinders, he still wanted more nuclear weapons, LeMay replied, “I want to see the cinders dance.”

[virgil283]

“I want to see the cinders dance.” I like that...If you are going to war then it is -ALL OUT- every weapon nothing held back....or don't go to war at all...

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***Developer of the Strategic Air Command,***

I remember living in Roswell NM in 1959 and seeing the B-47s taking off one right after another ever few weeks.

When I later was stationed there at Walker AFB the B-52s did not fly quite as often. The ALERT pads were always ready and every SAC base had two aircraft in the air with h-bombs at all times.

After a collision with a KC-135 Tanker, flying the two bombers with H-bombs was stopped.