US once again selects strategic nuclear base for talks with Japan

Visit to B-52 command follows inspections of submarines, ICBMs in past years

20250610 Extended Deterrence

Officials from the U.S. and Japan inspect a B-52 strategic bomber at Barksdale Air Force Base, Louisiana, during the Extended Deterrence Dialogue held on June 5 and 6. (Photo via Japan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs)

KEN MORIYASU

WASHINGTON -- In an annual display of nuclear muscle, U.S. government officials showed their Japanese counterparts a fleet of B-52 strategic bombers on an Air Force base in Louisiana.

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