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The Air Force and US Strategic Command say they aren’t planning to put nuclear bombers on 24-hour alert

by SOFREP News Team Oct 24, 2017

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The Air Force and US Strategic Command say they aren’t planning to put nuclear bombers on 24-hour alert

The Air Force is upgrading facilities at bases that house nuclear bombers.
But the Air Force and Strategic Command both say there are no plans to put those bombers on 24-hour alert.

Officials from the US Air Force and US Strategic Command have said there are no immediate plans to put nuclear bombers on 24-hour alert.

Questions about plans for US bombers came after a Defense One report that facility upgrades at Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana were part of an effort to prepare for an order to go to 24-hour ready alert with US nuclear bombers.

“This is yet one more step in ensuring that we’re prepared,” Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. David Goldfein told Defense One, though he and other officials stressed that no such order had been given.

Read the whole story from Business Insider.

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