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[[Fifteenth Air Force]] was assigned to SAC on 31 March (15th AF's [[263rd Army Air Force Base Unit]]—with [[:Category:Strategic Air Command radar stations|SAC's radar detachments]]—transferred the same date directly under HQ SAC {{r|Summary}}), while the IX Troop Carrier Command was inactivated the same date and its assets redistributed within SAC.
With postwar demobilization still underway, eight of the ten assigned bomb groups were inactivated before the [[Eighth Air Force]] was assigned to SAC on 7 June 1946.<ref>{{cite web |last=Broyhill |first=Marvin T |title=SAC History: This section is still under development |url=http://www.strategic-air-command.com/history/history-00.htm |publisher=Strategic-Air-Command.com |access-date=2013-08-31 |quote=<u>'''Startup'''</u> – 1944 – 1946. SAC is formed. Assigned 15th Air Force. First 10 Bomb Groups. 8 inactivated.<!-- Then assigned 8th Air Force.-->}}</ref>
Despite the pressures of demobilization, SAC continued the training and evaluation of bomber crews and units still on active duty in the postwar Army Air Forces. [[Radar Bomb Scoring]] became the preferred method of evaluating bomber crews, with the last of [[Radar Bomb Scoring|888 simulated bomb runs scored]] against a bombing site near [[San Diego]], California during 1946, subsequently increasing to 2,449 bomb runs by 1947.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Herring |first=G. B. (Jr.) |date=19 May 1966 |title=TBD |url=https://newspaperarchive.com/laurel-leader-call/1966-05-19/page-15 |newspaper=Laurel Leader Call |location=Laurel, Mississippi |access-date=2012-07-11 |quote=Radar bomb scoring began in 1946 with 888 bomb releases for the year against a site in the{{Verify source|date=August 2013}} San Diego}}</ref><ref name=Summary>{{Cite report |last=Horstead |first=Terry L. |date=9 November 1983 |title=Historical Summary: Radar Bomb Scoring, 1945–1983 |url=http://www.mobileradar.org/Documents/hist_sum_rad_bom_scrg.pdf |location=Barksdale AFB, Louisiana |publisher=Office of History, [[1st Combat Evaluation Group]] |access-date=29 March 2022 |quote=With the activation of the 8th Air Force the demand for radar bomb scoring training increased greatly. The 263rd was relieved from assignment to 15th Air Force and assigned directly to Headquarters Strategic Air Command.}}</ref> In the wake of the successful employment of air-dropped nuclear weapons against Hiroshima and Nagasaki to effectively end World War II, SAC became the focus of the nation's nuclear strike capability, to the extent that [[Joint Chiefs of Staff]] (JCS) Publication 1259/27 on 12 December 1946 identified that, "...the 'air atomic' strategic air force should only come under the orders of the JCS."{{r|Worden}}
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