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The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and several experts believe that it is highly likely that a number of US B61-12 gravity bombs were delivered to a US air force squadron last week, the first US nuclear deployment in the UK since 2008. Tom Unterrainer, the chair of CND, said it was “completely inappropriate” for the public to find out about “a major escalation in nuclear danger” via the assessments of military experts and called for the prime minister to update MPs. The head of the campaign group said the prime minister “must make a public statement about this major change in Britain’s security arrangements and allow for a transparent and democratic debate” on the issue. Confirmation of any deployment of nuclear weapons by Starmer or the defence secretary, John Healey, is not expected, however. A spokesperson for the Ministry of Defence said: “It remains a long-standing UK and Nato policy to neither confirm nor deny the presence of nuclear weapons at a given location.” One expert, William Alberque, a former director of Nato’s Arms Control, Disarmament and WMD Non-Proliferation Centre, said “the evidence is overwhelming” to conclude that B61 nuclear bombs have been transported to RAF Lakenheath in Suffolk. He cited other specialists who had tracked an unusual C-17 transport flight last week from the US air force base at Kirtland, New Mexico, which hosts a repository of an estimated 2,500 nuclear weapons, to Lakenheath. Taking off on Thursday, the transport plane landed in the UK on Friday and flew with its transponders on, meaning its flight was visible. The flight was operated by the 62nd Airlift Wing, the only US air force unit authorised to transport nuclear weapons.

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