BTW, do a google on terms like
cold war
sac
Curtiss LeMay
airborne command center

Not only were there 52's with nukes constantly airborne, also 24/7 there was
a general in the air who was empowered to initiate nuclear war by all assets
of the US military and to take control of the USA if nukes wiped out our
federal government and our military command in their entirety... Literally,
Armegeddon would happen if we were attacked....

You are too young to know these things... Those of us who lived through
them, will never forget... As a young man I used to drive by the airbase
here in Michigan, and B-52's with nuclear weapons aboard were parked in
rows, roughly 150 feet from the road, ready for immediate takeoff... There
were armed MP's standing at intervals between the bombers, and signs
prohibitng stopping or taking pictures, and if you slowed down too much they
would point and tell you to get a move on... But, if you waved and smiled,
they would wave back... The government and the people were vastly more
unified in that era, except for some of the liberal universities... I never
heard of anyone getting shot at, but a car load of lads with a too much beer
in their skins did stop and try to take pictures one time and got
arrested...
denny

"Jay Honeck" wrote I know we kept recon early
warning flights airborne for much of the Cold
War, but I didn't know we kept bombers in the air.