Big Picture: Exercise Desert Strike

National Archives and Records Administration ARC Identifier 2569850 / Local Identifier 111-TV-661 Big Picture: Exercise Desert Strike DVD Copied by Thomas Gideon - Department of Defense. Department of the Army. Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations. U.S. Army Audiovisual Center. (ca. 1974 - 05/15/1984). This film tells the story of a large-scale joint Army-Air Force training exercise in the United States. The objectives of the exercise were to test initiation of tactical nuclear warfare, control of escalation, and tactical operating on the nuclear battlefield.