Three times more powerful than Hiroshima: the United States will place nuclear weapons in Britain for the first time in 15 years - the media

In 2008, the United States exported nuclear missiles from the United Kingdom, deciding that the threat of the Cold War by Moscow had declined. The United States plans to place nuclear weapons in the UK. This can happen for the first time in the last 15 years against the background of rising threat from the Russian Federation. This is stated in Pentagon's documents, which The Telegraph was familiar with.

Government contracts for the new facility state that on the royal Air Force Air Force Leukenechitis in the saffolka will accommodate nuclear warheads, which three times exceed the capacity of the bomb dropped on Hiroshima. The United States exported nuclear missiles from the United Kingdom in 2008, deciding that the threat of the Cold War by Moscow had decreased. Such a step took place after warnings that NATO countries need to prepare their citizens for war with the Russian Federation.

Last week, a high -ranking NATO military official Admiral Rob Bauer stated that citizens should be ready for a total war with the Russian Federation in the next 20 years, which would need large -scale changes in their lives. General Sir Patrick Sanders, Head of the General Staff of the British Army, for his part, warned that in the event of a war with the Russian Federation, a general mobilization would be required because the army is too small.

The return of US weapons to the United Kingdom is carried out within the framework of a comprehensive NATO program for the development and modernization of nuclear objects in response to tension in relations with the Kremlin after a full -scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022. Russia has stated that the placement of US weapons in the UK will be considered by Moscow as "escalation", so it is worth expecting appropriate countermeasures.