When the United States wanted to send a message to North Korea after its January nuclear test, it dispatched a nuclear-capable B-52 Stratofortress to fly low over the South Korean peninsula.
That was pure symbolism. There was no way to tell if the Cold War era bomber was actually armed, with either conventional weapons, or nuclear-tipped cruise missiles.
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