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- worldnews@lemmy.ml
Missiles could be placed at RAF Lakenheath in Suffolk in case of potential war between Nato and Russia
The US is planning to station nuclear weapons in the UK for the first time in 15 years amid a growing threat from Russia, according to a report. Warheads three times as strong as the Hiroshima bomb would be located at RAF Lakenheath in Suffolk under the proposals, the Telegraph reported.
The US previously placed nuclear missiles at RAF Lakenheath and removed them in 2008 after the cold war threat from Moscow receded. Pentagon documents seen by the newspaper reveal procurement contracts for a new facility at the airbase.
A Ministry of Defence spokesperson said: “It remains a longstanding UK and Nato policy to neither confirm nor deny the presence of nuclear weapons at a given location.”
And so the Doomsday clock moves a few ticks closer to midnight. We’re bound to have a nuclear war eventually, maybe even within the next 30 years at some point. It’s like anything else, they don’t make nuclear weapons to just sit around and never be used. If they’re making them, at some point they will use them.
They do make nukes in the hope to never use them. It’s called deterrence.
No they make nukes in order to use them. They deceive themselves that they only make them for deterrence, the way people who buy guns deceive themselves into thinking they’ll only use it for protection, like the guy who shot and killed the high school girl who was in a car that turned into his driveway by accident, and as it was backing out, he fired at them from his window.
Of course he’s now on his way to a life sentence in prison. But I’m sure glad he’s well and truly protected from the incursion of rabid high school girls.
Why are you saying it like it’s a bad thing? Civilization isn’t worth preservation.
I absolutely agree with you. It’s not a bad thing it’s just a comment on the situation. Human civilization is NOT worth a plug nickel. And I’m all for the nuclear war, I just don’t want to wait around for it forever. Get on with it already!!!