Fogleman calls for bomber alert force with conventional weapons

U.S. Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Ronald Fogleman wants to revive the idea of having some bombers on strategic alert, but with conventional rather than nuclear weapons. "We may in the not-to-distant future see bomber forces going back on alert," Fogleman told an Air Force Association symposium here...

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