Embracing the bomb: Ethics, morality, and nuclear deterrence in the US air force, 1945–1955

1998 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 96-134 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bret J. Cillessen
2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathryn E. Myhre ◽  
Bryant J. Webber ◽  
Thomas L. Cropper ◽  
Juste N. Tchandja ◽  
Dale M. Ahrendt ◽  
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2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (December) ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Melissa Little ◽  
Xin-Qun Wang ◽  
Margaret Fahey ◽  
Kara Wiseman ◽  
Kinsey Pebley ◽  
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Author(s):  
Mark Reid ◽  
Dan Ashcraft

The US Air Force's (USAF) Pacific Air Forces (PACAF) has an effective approach to turning observations of problems into accomplished actions and mission improvements. This common-sense approach relies on 1) motivated buy-in and participation from the Chief Stakeholder (i.e., CEO, Commander, the Boss); 2) a standard assessment framework; 3) experienced, enduring, corporate memory-equipped assessors; 4) Chief Stakeholder's confidence in his assessors; 5) mid-managers empowered to fix their own problems; 6) access for the assessors to the Chief Stakeholder; and 7) an empowered ramrod to enforce the process and ensure follow-through. This chapter relates the steps of PACAF's process, which Headquarters (HQ) US Air Force called in 2012 “the Air Force's Best Practice at turning observations into progress” and illustrates these steps with PACAF's very positive experiences.


2020 ◽  
pp. 134-150
Author(s):  
Howard G. Coombs

This chapter explores the inception of the USAF's two educational institutions: the Air University (AU), and the US Air Force Academy (USAFA). The chapter shows that the AU, building on the interwar experience of the ACTS (Air Corps Tactical School), was able as a graduate school to go beyond expectations by becoming a fertile hub for professional learning. Conversely USAFA by mirroring Army and Navy institutions, established an undergraduate school with a solid curriculum, if not innovative in its approach. Tied to the rise of an independent air force service, the establishment of AU and USAFA sponsored by important military figures such as Billy Mitchell and Dwight Eisenhower heralded the rise of airpower theory in the Cold War era.


2020 ◽  
Vol 321 ◽  
pp. 11093
Author(s):  
Michael G. Glavicic ◽  
Tom Broderick ◽  
Vasisht Venkatesh ◽  
Iuliana Cernatescu ◽  
Daira Legzdina ◽  
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A summar y of the final progress achieved in two Metals Affordability Initiative (MAI) programs (RR-12 and RR-13) that were funded by the US Air Force to develop the necessary integrated computational materials engineering (ICME) framework, knowledge, and supporting database to model and predict location-specific fatigue properties across the entire titanium supply chain is presented. Validation of this ICME framework which allows for the prediction of location specific low cycle fatigue (LCF) and high cycle fatigue (HCF) behavior on complex production components in electro-polished and shot peened surface conditions will be presented. In addition, validation of a new shot peening capability embedded with the commercial software package DEFORM™ will be presented.


2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (12) ◽  
pp. 2003-2010
Author(s):  
Stacey Pereira ◽  
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Rebecca L. Hsu ◽  
Rubaiya Islam ◽  
Jill Oliver Robinson ◽  
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