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To the best of my knowledge, this is the closest I’ve ever been to nuclear bombs.

I live in Romania.

If it makes you feel better, it is very unlikely that they contain nuclear weapons. NATO has no interest in bombing anything on Ukrainian soil with nukes. and if the US wants to bomb Russia they would use an ICBM instead of an airplane that is (relatively) easy to shoot down.

I'd think they'd not rely on one mean of delivery and instead would have as many as possible ready. It's DEFCON 2 here after all.

> It's official: B-52 bombers are no longer authorized to carry nuclear gravity bombs," Kristensen said in a tweet earlier this week. "New Air Force instruction describes 'removal of B61-7 and B83-1 from B-52H approved weapons configuration.'

> "The B-52 remains the premier stand-off weapons platform utilizing the air-launched cruise missile as the main nuclear deterrent. While B61s and B83s are no longer equipped on the B-52, the weapons remain in the [B-2 Spirit] inventory,"

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2020/01/18/b-52-will-no-...

They can still fly with nuclear armed cruise missiles, just not gravity bombs (in what environment could something like that be used from a B-52 anyhow?)

If you're trying to say, this is the closest we've been to nuclear war, that's for sure. But to be certain, this is all Russia's fault, not America's.

No, I literally meant the physical distance between me and a nuke.

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