United States Intending(PLANNING) on—Increasing Its Nuclear Presence within UK…

According to unconfirmed media reports from the United Kingdom and by a United States based think-tank after analyzing documents relating to the Pentagon budget, they have concluded that United States armed forces could be considering or seeking to station American nuclear weapons within British soil. If this deployment were to take place it would be after 2008. Additionally American bombers  capable of carrying nuclear weapons as well as fighter jets that are required to escort these nuclear bombers will also be stationed.

The speculated military base intended to be used for these purposes Identified as RAF Lakenheath. Within the Pentagon budgetary planning findings were made for a surety dormitory at the RAF Lakenheath Royal Air Force base in Suffolk, north of the British capital, the Telegraph had reported. It is being revealed a funding request amounting to 50 million dollars has been submitted  to the Congress.

According to reports the term “surety” is frequently used by the Pentagon to refer to “the capability to keep nuclear weapons safe, secure, and under positive control.” (https://fas.org/publication/increasing-evidence-that-the-us-air-forces-nuclear-mission-may-be-returning-to-uk-soil/)

 While the budget document made mention of a NATO project to construct “secure sites and facilities” to store “special weapons” in the UK, officials have yet to confirm any new deployments at the base in question.

Indeed it is worth noting that back in the era of cold war the United States did indeed housed  RAF Lakenheath  for its intercontinental ballistic missiles, nuclear arsenals to long range bombers. And RAF Lakenheath was only one in three such bases used by the Americans. Prior to 2008 the base actually held 110 American nuclear warheads. Till the year 1992 the Americans did indeed provide the United Kingdom with nuclear weapons under the covert  secretive project dubbed as “Project E”. but it stopped after the fall of the Berlin Wall took place.

According to former commander Hamish de Bretton-Gordon, of the UK-NATO Joint Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear Regiment, he had told the Telegraph News paper that the new surety facility is likely to store American Strategic nuclear weapons.

He further stated in the scenario of a surety dormitory, it is a dedicated reinforced bunker used to house strategic nuclear missiles and warheads. When constructing such a bunker it should be able to withstand  a nuclear attack and as a result should not create an Inferno that could spell a nuclear disaster. In a simpler context the structure must be able to withstand  direct nuclear attack from a Russian warhead. 

Documents reveal the scheduled construction to begin within next summer and to be completed by early 2026. Within the Pentagon budgetary report it has also shown stationing of additional fighter jets such as a squadron of F-35s specifically designed for nuclear bombing missions.

It is also been speculated with credible confirmations that within coming months all of the F-15 Fighter Jets within RAF Lakenheath to be replaced with modern F-35 Fighter jets amounting to  54 units. However due to this revelation still hasn’t been officially acknowledged by the British government or by the British ministry of defense there is already growing disapproval about this decision by many British citizens particularly by residing near the RAF Lakenheath.

Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament Has stated “This fresh deployment of nuclear weapons to Nuclear capable arsenal is beyond irresponsible.

The campaign has stated “The deployment of the new B61-12 (gravity bombs) to Europe undermines any prospects for global peace and ensures Britain will be a target in a nuclear conflict between the US/NATO and Russia,” 

“It’s increasingly clear that Lakenheath is once again a vital cog in Washington’s overseas nuclear machine.”

Within a recent US Pentagon press briefing questioned about the possibility of nuclear weapons returning to the base RAF Lakenheath Deputy Pentagon press secretary Sabrina Singh replied “it was US policy to neither confirm nor deny the presence or absence of nuclear weapons at any general or specific location.”