’BUFF’ won’t be going back on alert – yet

Subscribe to www.airforcesmonthly.com for breaking news stories. E-mail the news team at edafm@keypublishing.com COMMENT Lightning strikes behind a B-52H Stratofortress at Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota, in August. For now at least, there are no plans to have nuclear-armed bombers standing on alert at the end of the runway. USAF/Senior Airman J T Armstrong Air Force Global Strike Command’s fleet of B-52H strategic bombers is not going back onto 24hr alert status after all. The US Air Force was