The Tu-22M3, a Soviet-era strategic bomber, has been in service since 1982 and is designed to deliver both nuclear and conventional strikes. Armed with Kh-22, Kh-15, Kh-32 missiles, and KAB-500 guided ...

It not only manages the nation’s 3,748 nuclear bombs and warheads, it is modernizing that arsenal — a $20-billion-a-year effort that will arm a new fleet of nuclear submarines, bomber jets and ...