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Originally Posted by Hugh
Nobody told the Vulcan bombers in the 70s at Waddington, Scampton, & Akrotiri that, or the Buccaneers at Honington…
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Maybe they should have then.
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Also, the current US arsenal already includes nearly 1,000 gravity nuclear bombs and air-launched cruise missiles with nuclear warheads that can be used by B52s and B2s.
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Once we moved to submarine launched, and land based ICBMs they pretty much became obsolete, bombers may have been held in reserve. But considering that NATO is not a first strike organisation any deployment would be in response to an attack and the world would probably be an inferno before they got airborne let alone over a target.