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On a more positive note, the U-2 also showed that the Soviets had been playing a fantastic game of bluff that made the world believe that a handful of bombers and temperamental missiles were a vast nuclear arsenal.
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David Szondy
august 10, New Atlas, 10 Aug. 2025
The last time Netanyahu seriously threatened to send bombers to Iran was during the Obama Administration.
—David Remnick, New Yorker, 28 July 2025
Sound travels 13 times as fast through bedrock as air, and so the audible rumble came later and then sight of the bombers turning back to Guam.
—Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 27 July 2025
Two of the planes flying off the Alaskan coast were Russia’s Tu-95 Bear Bomber, an aircraft one hailed as the Soviet Union’s preeminent nuclear bomber.
—Washington Examiner Staff, The Washington Examiner, 24 July 2025
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David Szondy
august 10, New Atlas, 10 Aug. 2025
The last time Netanyahu seriously threatened to send bombers to Iran was during the Obama Administration.
—David Remnick, New Yorker, 28 July 2025
Sound travels 13 times as fast through bedrock as air, and so the audible rumble came later and then sight of the bombers turning back to Guam.
—Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 27 July 2025
Two of the planes flying off the Alaskan coast were Russia’s Tu-95 Bear Bomber, an aircraft one hailed as the Soviet Union’s preeminent nuclear bomber.
—Washington Examiner Staff, The Washington Examiner, 24 July 2025
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“Bomber.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bomber. Accessed 21 Aug. 2025.
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bomber
noun
bomb·er
ˈbäm-ər 
: one that bombs
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: an airplane designed for dropping bombs
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