The Incredible 50-year-old Plane on the Front Lines of the North Korea Standoff
The Cold War-era B-52 is a still a key part of the U.S. bomber fleet. But is that a good thing?
By GORDON F. SANDER
January 20, 2018
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In 1964, Stanley Kubrick’s nuclear black comedy Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Love the Bomb burst into the cerulean with the force of a surface-to-air missile. Considered one of the greatest political satires ever made, the film centers around an unhinged Air Force Strategic Air Command (SAC) general, Jack D. Ripper, who sends his wing of Boeing B-52 Stratofortress bombers to nuke the Soviet Union, and the frantic effort to recall them before they can deliver their thermonuclear payload. Said effort fails. Cue mushroom clouds and the WWII English songbird Vera Lynn singing, “We’ll meet again.â€
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/01/20/b-52-bomber-history-north-korea-216486
