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    Military Apologizes For Bombing A New Year's Eve Tweet

    U.S. Strategic Command faced a backlash after it tweeted about the Time's Square ball drop, adding that "if needed" it would "drop something much, much bigger."
    by Amy Held Jan 01, 2019 1 minute
    U.S. Strategic Command deleted a New Year's Eve tweet depicting a B-2 bomber in flight (not this one), saying it was in "poor taste."

    Updated at 12:30 p.m. Eastern

    U.S. Strategic Command is charged with controlling the nation's nuclear operations, but conceded it missed the mark with a New Year's Eve tweet comparing the famed ball drop to a B-2 bomber dropping weapons.

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