The government is facing fresh demands to disclose whether US nuclear weapons are on British soil. It comes as a senior American official confirmed the deployment of a new generation of bombs had been completed.
The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) has written to the prime minister and the defence secretary to ask whether RAF Lakenheath in Suffolk is housing B61-12 munitions.
The UK and Nato have a long-standing policy to neither confirm nor deny the presence of nuclear weapons at a given location. […]
In a speech last week, the administrator of the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), Jill Hruby, said ”the new B61-12 gravity bombs are fully forward deployed”. She added that they had ”increased Nato’s visibility to our nuclear capabilities”.
The NNSA is the US government agency that maintains the nuclear weapons stockpile. The B61-12 is a thermonuclear bomb which can be carried by F-35A Lightning II aircraft, which are stationed at RAF Lakenheath. Läs artikel