1.   Among the captured images was a Soviet bomber base at Mys Shmidta, on the extreme northern coast of the Russian Far East.

2.   As explained here, President Dwight D. Eisenhower ordered the building of a new spy plane because he doubted Air Force estimates of Soviet bomber strength.

3.   At the same time, evolving military doctrine argued that the threat from Soviet bombers could be more effectively and economically met by guided missiles.

4.   Air Guard and Reserve pilots flew fighter jets carrying a nuclear-tipped rocket designed to detonate in the middle of a wave of Soviet bombers.

5.   Alaska shared a common boundary with Siberia along the Bering Strait, and the shortest route for Soviet bombers targeting U.S. cities lay across the Pole.

6.   He added that on-site inspection would be needed to verify removal of the offensive weapons, including the Soviet bombers.

7.   Some of their missiles were armed with nuclear warheads that could pulverize a whole squadron of incoming Soviet bombers.

8.   Soviet bombers pounded the village more than once, leaving jagged ruins where mudwalled homes once stood and forcing many villagers to flee to Pakistan and Iran as refugees.

9.   The idea was to build a bunker inside a mountain that could withstand atomic attack by Soviet bombers.

10.   Throughout the Cold War years, Mosdok was a major Soviet strategic bomber base.