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walrus01 on Jan 25, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Remembering the night two atomic bombs fell on Nor...

you'd have to be a madman to fly around with 'live' ready to use nuclear bombs in the modern era, but then again, strategic air command was headed by a madman, curtis lemay... and they did it from the early 1950s for 25+ years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_Air_Command

tyingq on Jan 26, 2021 [–]

They do still maintain the ability to launch nukes from various aircraft.

There was a famous oopsie in 2007 where they mistakenly flew some live nukes around. In this case, cruise missles: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_United_States_Air_Force_n...

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