Mercury supplies command and control for the US Strategic Command, the Secretary of Defense and the President. The plane also ...

Narrator: If there ever were a nuclear war and all US military ground communication was destroyed, this $223 million plane would become the command and control center for the US military's most ...

During the mission, the plane experienced a fuel leak ... obtained by journalist Eric Schlosser while researching his book Command and Control, the basis of the American Experience film.

In the event of nuclear war, this E-4B could become a mobile command center. It has nuclear and thermal shields, and can even withstand EMP pulses. The plane can be refueled in the air ...

This month, military leaders from across Europe were in Stuttgart for a three-day summit at EUCOM headquarters learning about ways to build more effective command and control structures.

Mercury supplies command and control for the US Strategic Command, the Secretary of Defense and the President. The plane also provides orders to carry out nuclear strikes when necessary.