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US planning to station nuclear weapons in UK amid threat from Russia – report
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 28 Jan 2024
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Do none of you know that the UK is already a recognised nuclear state under the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons? The UK already has a stockpile of 280 nukes under its control.
Nukes in Britain aren't something new, so people who call this the Cuban Missile Crisis 2.0 are being stupid.
Still, the US had fairly recently halved the number of nukes stationed in Germany. So this is a reversal of course