Due to their great range and firepower, in an all-out Nuclear warfare, SLBM and land-based ICBMs would carry most of the destructive force, with nuclear-armed bombers the remainder.

The CF-100 Canuck operated under NORAD to protect airspace from Soviet threats such as nuclear-armed bombers during all weather and day/night conditions.

Stop-gap carrier based one-way nuclear-armed bomber, not intended to return for a landing on a carrier.

The E-6B model deployed in October 1998 kept this role, but added further command post capabilities and control of land-based missiles and nuclear-armed bombers.

The weapon was intended to counter high-altitude nuclear-armed bombers before they could release their weapons.

The Electronic Systems Division had emerged after a decade of efforts to meet a major post-war threat to the North American continent-attack by long-range, nuclear-armed bombers.

Through a chain of errors, the Strategic Command and Control system automatically dispatches a squadron of nuclear-armed bombers to destroy Moscow.

A Senate Armed Services Committee report released this week said that the Soviet Union had ceased submarine patrols off the United States and flights by nuclear-armed bombers skirting Canada's northern border.

In the 1950s, the Soviet Union sought the means to defend against the nuclear-armed American bombers possibly penetrating its borders (especially its long and vulnerable northern border).