Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Jirgin saman bam na Cold War ya kasance yana dauke da makaman nukiliya. A lokacin bayan 1940s Indochina Wars
, kuma tun daga ƙarshen Cold War, 'yan kunar bakin wake na zamani da aka yi niyya don amfani da dabarun an yi amfani da su ne kawai ta amfani da makaman da ba na nukiliya ba, manyan abubuwa masu fashewa. A lokacin yakin Vietnam, Operation Menu, Operation Freedom Deal, Gulf War, aikin soja a Afghanistan, da kuma mamayewa na 2003 na Iraki, Amurka B-52s da B-1s sun fi amfani da su a cikin ayyukan da suka dace. A lokacin yakin Soviet-Afghan a 1979-88, Sojojin Sojojin Soviet Tu-22Ms sun gudanar da hare-haren iska da yawa a yankuna daban-daban na Afghanistan.