Those airplanes are about 60 years old now and each is several tons heavier with replacement wiring and stop-drill reinforcement plates all over the airframe. (They can't pull the original wiring out when they run new cables.) Way back in the 1980s crews were trying to sabotage them so they wouldn't have to risk their lives flying them.
Really ? I **FLEW** B-52s in the 1980s, and saw no “sabotage”. There has been ONE documented instance of intentional sabotage of a B-52, that was in 1978 at Warner-Robins, and was done by a Crew Chief, NOT an Aircrew Member...