Russia - threadbanned users in OP

The original question was why the Russian fleet of heavy bombers is absent. If they were launching missiles from these bombers, they would be tracked from take off.

They could launch hypersonic missiles, but how many do they actually have? If they are used in Ukraine, how many are left as a deterrent. There is a reason they are used so infrequently. A ground-launched Armenian Iskander missile was shot down.

They were being used up until very recently, they were launching missles from the Russian side of the blacksea where they are relatively safe from anti aircraft defenses,

They lost one tu22m bomber over Georgia a few years back due to a Anti aircraft defenses ever since they only use fighters to bomb in conflict areas .,,

The Manhattan scientists knew full well the destructive nature of the bomb and made their concerns known to both Roosevelt and Truman at the time. Scientists that designed and built both Fat Man and Little Boy urged the President to seriously reconsider using it and were largely against its use themselves by 1945, as they deemed it to be unnecessary by then because of how the war had progressed. So conflicted were some of them that the joined in with Leo Szilard in drafting a petition to the White House that recommended against using the bomb, because they were well aware of the monster that they had created.

“I knew by this time that it would not be possible to dissuade the government from using the bomb against the cities of Japan...I thought the time had come for the scientists to go on record against the use of the bomb against the cities of Japan on moral grounds."

Szilard, who along with Albert Einstein, had originally urged Roosevelt to begin research on an atomic weapon in 1939, had come to a complete about face with regards to its actual use in 1945.

I read somewhere that 6 more weeks of conventional bombing would have ended the war.

They simply cannot afford to lose their bombers,

They have used the threat of Long range bombers for decades but they don't have the ability to manufacture large advanced aircraft including bombers like the US can ,

Compare stealth aircraft

Su57 is the current only stealth aircraft regularly has been detected by radar and Old air craft ,

Russia has a fleet of 5 of them.

America has produced 840 + F35 stealth aircraft not just for themselves but their allies too ,

Not including other types being produced at the same time.

Seeing as it's off topic, it's the last I'll mention of the atomic bomb on the thread. But if that's what your bringing to the table, then it's probably best that you don't get into a debate about it.

"Revisionism" 🙄

Thanks. 2.5 hours would drive me insane. Brief "highlights" are enough

I'm sorry, revisionism? Every historian, author in this field, even the much lauded and extremely accurate documentary concur with what Tony EH has written. Its a FACTUAL account, corroborated by multiple sources. For Christ sake I had to study it in college and for work.

You do know what revisionism means?

pick a number

5 years later the same neocons presured GW Bush into his "famous" statement during the NATO summit in Bucharest regarding Ukraine becoming a NATO member

Seems a few reporting on this now.

For like two days back in February that happened. I doubt it's repeating now, why would it? Unless people think the Putin regime might collapse? But are we really at that point yet?