You are pretending that &quot;nuke Moscow&quot; is some kind of specialized mission requiring specialized planes that can&#x27;t be used for anything else, <i>even though the B-52 itself is a glaring counterexample</i>.<p>&quot;Carry a heavy load of weapons anywhere in the world while having a decent chance of penetrating air defenses&quot; is a better description of what a bomber does, but that doesn&#x27;t lend itself to the kind of facile sneering that was in your original post, does it?