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Air Force Global Strike Command’s fleet of B-52H strategic bombers is not going back onto 24hr alert status after all. The US Air Force was quick to quash rumours that plans were being prepared for the Stratofortress to return to a Cold War-style routine of nuclear-armed aircraft sitting ready on concrete pads while crews pulled round-the-clock shifts in a dedicated facility, waiting for the klaxon to sound.
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