Chrome Dome (19611025-19661110)

Name: Chrome Dome (Operation)

Date: November 6, 1961 - March 31, 1962

Location(s): Multiple routes through Canadian airspace.

Purpose: This operation was part of the SAC’s airborne alert indoctrination plan.

Notes: This operation underwent notably more revisions than other operations under the airborne alert indoctrination plan. The operation was later renamed “Giant Wheel.”

More documents from this operation are available in the archive.