US to station nuclear weapons in UK to counter threat from Russia

Yahoo News / Telegraph ^ | 1.26.2024 | Tony Diver

[libh8er]

The United States is planning to station nuclear weapons in the UK for the first time in 15 years as the threat from Russia increases, Pentagon documents seen by The Telegraph reveal.

Procurement contracts for a new facility at RAF Lakenheath in Suffolk confirm that the US intends to place nuclear warheads three times the strength of the Hiroshima bomb at the air base.

The US removed nuclear missiles from the UK in 2008, judging that the Cold War threat from Moscow had diminished.

The disclosure comes in the wake of warnings that Nato countries need to ready their citizens for war with Russia.

Last week, Adml Rob Bauer, a senior Nato military official, said that private citizens should prepare for all-out war with Russia in the next 20 years that would require wholesale change in their lives.

General Sir Patrick Sanders, the head of the British Army, went on to warn that the public would need to be called up to fight if there was war with Russia because the Army was too small. His comments forced Downing Street to rule out conscription.

Boris Johnson on Friday night backed Sir Patrick’s call for a citizen army, as he pledged to sign up if the UK went to war with Russia.

The US navy secretary, Carlos Del Toro, then urged Britain to “reassess” the size of its armed forces. On Friday, No 10 defended the Government’s military spending, pointing out that “the UK is the second biggest defence spender in Nato and the largest in Europe”.

[madison10]

Seriously?!

[ETCM]

The F-35 has made the B61-12 bomb a much more dangerous weapon. I’m sure that’s what we will be stationing there. Also, all four of our European partners in NATO’s Nuclear Sharing agreement have or soon will have, F-35s.

UK’s only remaining nuclear deterrent is SLBMs.

[Reverend Wright]

"Boris Johnson on Friday night backed Sir Patrick’s call for a citizen army, as he pledged to sign up if the UK went to war with Russia. "

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Son of a bitch ! They are doing a remake of Dad's Army.

[GOPJ]

This is nuts... more proof promoting officers based on Kolor, Kink or Kin is insane.

[Nateman]

The UK has its own bombs. And why put in weak ones when we have 20 Megaton Thermonuclear weapons?

[mass55th]

Goody-goody. Can’t wait for the muzzies taking over the UK, to get their greasy paws on them...and doesn’t Britain have its own nukes?

[House Atreides]

“ The disclosure comes in the wake of warnings that Nato countries need to ready their citizens for war with Russia.”
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Pound those war drums, pound them!

[unclebankster]

Pound those war drums, pound them!

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War, war, war, kill, kill, kill, while waving “fag flags” all over the globe.

Kooks & crazies are running the foreign policy of the United States.

[woodpusher]

The US navy secretary, Carlos Del Toro, then urged Britain to “reassess” the size of its armed forces. On Friday, No 10 defended the Government’s military spending, pointing out that “the UK is the second biggest defence spender in Nato and the largest in Europe”.

The British Armed Forces total active personnel is 186,000. The British Army totals about 75,000 which will all fit in an NFL football stadium.

[chuckb87]

“...the head of the British Army, went on to warn that the public would need to be called up to fight if there was war with Russia because the Army was too small.”

What a moron, he/she it doesn’t understand they aren’t going to have a conventional war with Russia. They’re gonna get nuked into oblivion.

[unclebankster]

The British Armed Forces total active personnel is 186,000. The British Army totals about 75,000 which will all fit in an NFL football stadium.

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The UK establishment with their Podunk military aren’t afraid to stir up a hornets nest.

Limey Chihuahuas

[Gaffer]

I used to work TDY out of RAF Croughton and personnel-based out of RAF Upper Heyford in the early 70s. They used to run F-111s out of there. Also spent some time at RAF Lakenheath a stone’s throw from RAF Mildenhall.....

Last time I looked, Upper Heyford was closed and car companies were using the runways to park unsold cars - thousands of them.

[TimSkalaBim]

The disclosure comes in the wake of warnings that Nato countries need to ready their citizens for war with Russia.

"Our democracy" - where the state makes the decisions and lets the people know afterward.

And showing once again that democracy is a very jealous god, and requires much blood sacrifice.

[canuck_conservative]

If they’ve got you Russian cheerleaders upset, they must be doing something right

Carry on!

[Dog]

This is not going to go over well there...another Biden screw up in the making

[Dog]

I’m not a Russian sympathizer...but...let’s get real here...and admit this is a stupid foreign policy screw up by the Biden Administration.

[canuck_conservative]

We wouldn’t be even talking about this if Russia hadn’t illegally invaded a sovereign country

That’s how it all started

[Justa]

They should be brought forward to: Baltic states, Poland, Romania and Moldova. All of Putin’s future targets of conquest should be so armed.

[Worldtraveler once upon a time]

Wiki says "In 1952, the United Kingdom became the third country (after the United States and the Soviet Union) to develop and test nuclear weapons, and is one of the five nuclear-weapon states under the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons."

Sounds as if "great" Britain can't afford to keep their arsenal updated anymore. The costs of too much socialism and the costs of too much aristocracy and the costs of too much migration from Islamic lands.