B-52 Superfortress/Related Articles

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Bomber aircraft [r]: Airplanes optimized to deliver weapons to surface targets, rather than to fight other airplanes. ^[e]
Eighth Air Force [r]: The organization currently "owning" the bombers, information operations, and most intelligence aircraft of the United States Air Force; it conducted strategic bombing against Germany in the Second World War ^[e]

Barksdale Air Force Base [r]: United States Air Force base in Arkansas, having the headquarters of the Eighth Air Force, commanding strategic bombers, and one of the two B-52 bomber wings ^[e]
Minot Air Force Base [r]: Located in North Dakota, it is one of two United States Air Force bases with a B-52 bomber wing, and is administratively under the Eighth Air Force. It also hosts the 91st Space Wing of LGM-30 Minuteman long-range ballistic missiles ^[e]

AGM-86 ALCM [r]: Add brief definition or description
B61 (nuclear weapon [r]: Add brief definition or description
B83 (nuclear weapon [r]: Add brief definition or description
Cold War [r]: Geostrategic, economic and ideological struggle from about 1947 to 1991 between the Soviet Union and the United States and their allies. ^[e]
Fusion device [r]: An explosive device, whether used as a weapon or for other purposes, which depends for most of its explosive power on the release of energy by combining atomic nuclei ^[e]
Joint Direct Action Munition [r]: Add brief definition or description
Gulf War [r]: Add brief definition or description
Single Integrated Operational Plan [r]: The U.S. plan and doctrine for the use of nuclear weapons in a large campaign, prepared for all services by the U.S. Strategic Command, based on Joint Chiefs of Staff guidance ^[e]
Strategic Air Command [r]: Add brief definition or description
United States Strategic Command [r]: Add brief definition or description