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E-6B airborne command and control center, Looking Glass, Mirrors, and Lewis Carroll

The E-6B has been tracked over the last few weeks. In 1998, it was described as part of Looking Glass – "the linchpin of deterrence."

As dawn crept into the skies above Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., June 24, U.S. Strategic Command officers aboard the Navy's E-6B Take-Charge-and-Move-Out, or TACAMO, command-and-control aircraft simultaneously turned the keys that launched a Minuteman III Intercontinental Ballistic Missile toward a target hundreds of miles away in the Marshall Islands.

It was the first time in history the launch of a Minuteman was controlled from the TACAMO, which officially replaces the Air Force's aging EC-135 in the "Looking Glass" mission of command and control of the nation's strategic nuclear forces Oct. 1.

"I believe the Looking Glass mission is the linchpin of deterrence," said Kilpatrick. "There's just a few ground-based command centers and those can be taken out fairly easily. The beauty of our system is that if they take them all out, we're still here. We really complicate things for the bad guys."

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The wikipedia page on Operation Looking Glass said this:

"Although not officially acknowledged, the code name alludes to Lewis Carroll's popular Through the Looking Glass children's novel, in which the protagonist enters the Looking-glass world, "a most curious country," where the entire world is a chessboard of land and fought over by the evil "reds and the [good] whites".

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However, in 2020, the wikipedia omits mention of Lewis Carroll in favor of simply mirror:

The name Looking Glass, which is another name for a mirror, was chosen for the Airborne Command Post because the mission operates in parallel with the underground command post at Offutt Air Force Base.[3]

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