1.   A slow -- admittedly a very slow start -- was being made to the build-up of a long-range nuclear bomber force.

2.   Attracting investment to a region previously best known as a top secret base for long-range nuclear bombers, intercontintenal ballistic missiles, and chemical weapons was another goal.

3.   To ram home the point, Russia has in recent days tested a new submarine-launched missile and threatened to send nuclear bombers to Cuba.

4.   Ukraine long ago returned all nuclear weapons to Russia and had since destroyed its nuclear bombers.

5.   American equipment helps dismantle Russian nuclear bombers, saw apart submarine missile launchers, and bury missile silos.

6.   Dudayev was a general in the Soviet air force and once flew nuclear bombers.

7.   He used to fly nuclear bombers for a living.

8.   ITAR-Tass said its correspondent interviewed Dudayev, a former Soviet air force general who flew nuclear bombers, in a village in the mountains of southern Chechnya.

9.   The air force does not have any plans for a new long-range nuclear bomber or cruise missiles, analysts said.

10.   The system entrusted him with the controls of strategic nuclear bombers.