…the dance of fear and ignorance
The US Air Force Strategic Air Command’s B-52s, laden with nuclear weapons, were constantly in the air during much of the Cold War.
Fear of a Soviet ICBM first strike, which might annihilate America’s ground-based nuclear strike force, made these flights necessary.
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