{"id":29887,"date":"2017-10-23T12:41:38","date_gmt":"2017-10-23T20:41:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=29887"},"modified":"2017-10-23T12:41:38","modified_gmt":"2017-10-23T20:41:38","slug":"ron-paul-on-cold-war-returned-b-52s-back-on-ready-alert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/23\/ron-paul-on-cold-war-returned-b-52s-back-on-ready-alert\/","title":{"rendered":"Ron Paul on Cold War Returned: B-52s Back On &#8216;Ready Alert&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US fleet of B-52 bombers is more than 60 years old. It&#8217;s been 26 years \u2013 since the end of the Soviet Union \u2013 that these bombers have been ready to take off and drop nuclear weapons at a moment&#8217;s notice. Over the weekend, US Air Force chief of staff, Gen. David Goldfein, announced that the US would be going back to the future \u2013 restoring this long-dead feature of the Cold War. Is this just a case of weapons in search of a war? Are we really back to the 1950s? Tune in to today&#8217;s Ron Paul Liberty Report:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NeABISpzpfM\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><i>Reprinted from <a href=\"http:\/\/ronpaulinstitute.org\/\">The Ron Paul Institute for Peace &amp; Prosperity<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US fleet of B-52 bombers is more than 60 years old. It&#8217;s been 26 years \u2013 since the end of the Soviet Union \u2013 that these bombers have been ready to take off and drop nuclear weapons at a moment&#8217;s notice. Over the weekend, US Air Force chief of staff, Gen. David Goldfein, announced [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":325,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-29887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/325"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29887"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29889,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29887\/revisions\/29889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29887"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=29887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}