[AnotherUnixGeek]

That means the long-dormant concrete pads at the ends of this base’s 11,000-foot runway — dubbed the “Christmas tree” for their angular markings — could once again find several B-52s parked on them, laden with nuclear weapons and set to take off at a moment’s notice.

Wouldn't we be better prepared if we weren't using B-52s made before most of us were born?

[Hang'emAll]

Actually I was born before they were born.

I also worked on them when they had miniature vacuum tubes then transistors and then Integrated Circuits and signal processors then Infrared Video and optical Video.

They have been rebuilt from Radome to mini-gun many times.
Unfortunately that is what you do when you have a do nothing congress for years and metro sexual illegal as president for 8 years.

The B-52s are good to go.

[SnuffaBolshevik]

"Wouldn't we be better prepared if we weren't using B-52s made before most of us were born?"

We have other, more modern, aircraft that are also capable of carrying the payloads we're talking about here.

This also could be for show, as the real sizzle is in the upper plains states and gliding through the depths.

[OldMissileer]

Wouldn't we be better prepared if we weren't using B-52s made before most of us were born?

We only have a handful of BUFFs and the B-2s that are still nuclear certified.

[Axenolith]

They’re not going to be loaded for penetration missions, they’d be used to launch standoff weapons like nuclear cruise missiles.