Missile silos and heavy bombers were destroyed or dismantled once in a ceremony attended by the American and Russian defense chiefs.
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Uncle Sam, wreathed in smoke and surrounded by long lines of heavy bombers and advancing soldiers, also presents an image of indomitable strength.
The United States began deploying troops, ships and aircraft, including heavy bombers, to bases overseas last week, raising the prospect of a U.S. strike against Afghanistan.
Ukraine and Kazakhstan demonstrated a similar pattern of cooperation when they decided to rid themselves of the nuclear weapons, intercontinental ballistic missiles and heavy bombers inherited from the Soviet Union.
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Although the use of U.S. heavy bombers risks provoking the North into a dangerous miscalculation, U.S. officials believe the joint exercises with South Korea ultimately will have a stabilizing effect.
Already, our budget proposal reflects some of our key priorities, including increased funding for our nuclear complex, and a commitment to sustain our heavy bombers and land and submarine-based missile capabilities, under the new START agreement.
Britain has also helped with air-to-air refuelling, thus extending the effective range of America's carrier-based bombers, and agreed to the use of Diego Garcia, a British island in the Indian Ocean, as a base for heavy bombers.
The Soviets had 140 heavy bombers.
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In 1940 Donald Bailey of Britain's Royal Engineers used his Erector Set to design the portable Bailey Bridge, which spanned creeks and rivers and was hailed by Eisenhower as one of the three most important technological advancements of the war, along with radar and heavy bombers.
This approach would allow defense planners to argue that the classic MRC force of six to seven Army divisions, 10 Air Force fighter wings, 100 heavy bombers and four to five carriers was still needed to defend the Persian Gulf, but was excessive for a second MRC even in the region where it was most likely to occur.
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So heavy is it that the weapon bays of B-2 stealth bombers have had to be strengthened to carry it.
But in this age of underpants bombers and long-haul flights that charge for potato chips, many workers see heavy travel as a disadvantage.
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