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Although Strategic Air Command originally envisioned the B-52 as a strictly nuclear bomber, its operational weaponry ranged from iron bombs to cruise missiles like the AGM-86C conventional cruise missile being loaded on a B-52H during Operation Allied Force in 1999. (U.S. Air Force)