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Shades of the Cold War and Dr. Strangelove.

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Last month, for the first time in 40 years, a B-52 armed with nuclear missiles was flown over American airspace.

Tomorrow, 100,000 airmen at all air combat command bases will stand down as investigators try to figure out how that happened.

Meantime, Russia has tested what it calls the father of all bombs and resumed Cold War-type bomber

patrols close to NATO airspace. On to the point, what's behind Russia's aggressive behavior?

Can the U.S. keep track of its weapons of mass destruction?

On reporter's notebook later on, a new American ally assassinated in Iraq.

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Foundation. Hello again, Worminali, back with To the Point. America's entire air combat command

will stand down tomorrow. Investigators want to know why a B-52 was loaded and flown with nuclear

missiles for the first time in 40 years. On To the Point, we'll have that story and Russia's aggressive

new posture. Why has it tested a powerful new weapon and resumed Cold War-style bomber

patrols? On reporter's notebook, General Petraeus, Ambassador Crocker, and President Bush

say the alliance with Sunni leaders in Anbar province is a sign of success in Iraq. Today, one of those leaders

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