The US ability to store nuclear weapons in the UK is to be upgraded with new money for military infrastructure, US defense documents show.

Biden's 2023 Department of Defense budget request to NATO shows that the military alliance has added the UK to a list of countries receiving $384 million in investments to store "special weapons."

Other countries receiving this funding are Belgium, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, and Turkey, where the USA stores an estimated 150 American B-61 nuclear gravity bombs, according to the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.

The director of the nuclear information project at the Federation of American Scientists, Hans Kristensen, first broke the story of the UK "quietly" being added to the infrastructure program. While not detailed in the budget, the former US airbase at RAF Lakenheath, near Cambridge, eastern England, was the most likely site being upgraded to store nuclear weapons, Kristensen's said.

The US decommissioned its Lakenheath base and the nuclear weapons store in 2008. Before they were mothballed, the 33 underground storage vaults could hold 110 nuclear bombs.

In his article, Kristensen added that he does not believe this signifies a new deployment of nuclear weapons in Europe. It would not be in line with NATO's "cautious nuclear response" to Putin's invasion of Ukraine.

Kristensen believes the upgrade at the airbase is to "increase the flexibility of the existing nuclear deployment within Europe, without increasing the number of weapons."

The executive director of the Arms Control Association, Daryl Kimball, told the Guardian that this upgrade is "an early sign that the US and Nato are preparing to engage in a protracted and maybe heightened standoff with Putin's Russia."

He said that the Biden administration "should provide some clarity about the military necessity and goals of possibly bringing nuclear weapons back to the UK."

https://www.businessinsider.com/us-to-upgrade-nuclear-weapons-facilities-uk-biden-military-docs-2022-4?r=US&IR=T

orisa37:
SUPPORTED TO CURB RUSSIA MADNESS.

ifex370:


In a different continent.

If a nuclear war should break out. Guess who will have the most impact?

Yes, Europe. While America once again.. Stays chilling.

SeeThisLoser:


Europe has a total of 600 Nuclear bombs, enough to wipe Russia off the world map. So its a case of MAP as you can imagine.

asfrank:
A Nuclear war has no winners, seems some people are not aware of the concept of "Mutually Assured Destruction" MAD... Russia has enough Nukes to destroy the world... When one country strikes, the globe would turn into a Nuclear fireworks ��... Everyone dies, that is why politicians think twice, they would be among the casualties also...

ifex370:


In a different continent.

If a nuclear war should break out. Guess who will have the most impact?

Yes, Europe. While America once again.. Stays chilling.


Why can't the Europeans gather and unite as one? And not let the US's conception of being the global leader divide them?

Imagine if Germany, Russia, Brit, France where one big Unity.. Forget the US, no force in the world would be able to stop them

pquaver:


Why always Russia nukes? Others no get? When the place their own on nuclear alert we no hear this epistle from u.. Nato is getting ready u r complaining. Is it not only Russia always talking about nuclear bomb? ABEG nobody dey fear dem again. All die na die.. Russia sef go collect

pquaver:


Why can they unite against Russia.. Putin is the aggressor in Europe.. Americans are of European heritage so get in ur head..

ifex370:


If there was no NATO there would not have to be an aggression.

The same NATO they've refused Russia from joining.

They clearly have drawn the lines on who their enemies are.

An that agenda is pushed by none other than the US

pquaver:


I have asked you.. Was there nato when Russia teamed up with Hitler to annex lands from Poland?

ifex370:


The world war ended more than 70 years ago

ifex370:


In a different continent.

If a nuclear war should break out. Guess who will have the most impact?

Yes, Europe. While America once again.. Stays chilling.


Why can't the Europeans gather and unite as one? And not let the US's conception of being the global leader divide them?

Imagine if Germany, Russia, Brit, France where one big Unity.. Forget the US, no force in the world would be able to stop them