I still remember videos of that smiling idiot Bill Clinton when they were chopping the wings off of moth balled B52’s in the desert somewhere for one of those meaningless treaties he got suckered into. I wonder how many B52 air frames that simpleton actually ruined. Now that is what I call a war crime.
The bombers cut up during the Clinton administration were the early models with the tall tails, the D, E, and F versions. They were not suited for the type of combat we were planning as the tall tails had too much stress on them for low level penetration.
I think the terrible part was the mothballing and destruction of the G models (water burners) and these were the backbone of our nuclear deterrence and Bush 2 allowed them to be destroyed.
We now have fewer than 100 B-52H models left in the active inventory.