# Strategic Modernization

Vintage Wings and Nuclear Bottlenecks: The B-52 Crisis Delaying America's Newest Missile

A Government Accountability Office report reveals that the U.S. Air Force lacks sufficient B-52 bombers to conduct critical flight tests for the AGM-181A nuclear cruise missile. This shortage, caused by the low availability of aging airframes, threatens to delay the modernization of the air-based component of the American nuclear triad.