The Telegraph has learned of US plans to deploy nuclear weapons in the UK

TheUS is going to deploy tactical nuclear weapons at the Lakenheath military base in the UK in the coming years. This was reported by The Telegraph newspaper on December 17.

According to the newspaper, a storage facility for tactical nuclear weapons is currently under construction at the base and is expected to be completed within the next few years.

At the same time, the newspaper noted that Britain and France are discussing the possibility of bilateral cooperation to develop their own tactical nuclear weapons to reduce their military dependence on the United States.

Earlier, on June 21, Alistair Burnett, head of the media department of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), said that the United States continues to prepare for the deployment of nuclear weapons in the UK, but they have not yet been deployed in the country.

Before that, in January, The Telegraph newspaper, referring to a Pentagon document, wrote that the US wanted to deploy nuclear weapons in the UK for the first time in 15 years. It was specified that it was planned to place at the Lakenheath airbase in Suffolk County nuclear warheads, three times the power of the bomb dropped on Hiroshima.

Later, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov spoke about such U.S. plans. He emphasized that the warheads could be deployed in the near future. At the same time, according to the diplomat, Washington and London are mistaken if they think that this will be an act of deterrence against Russia. Russia will find ways "to get around it."