Council urged to review plans that could lead to UK hosting US nuclear bombs
An attempt by the Ministry of Defence to build a dormitory that could lead to the return of US nuclear weapons to British soil is being challenged by the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) because it is being attempted without planning permission. The campaign group has asked West Suffolk council to intervene and insist that the planned 144-bed facility at RAF Lakenheath be subject to an environmental impact assessment or be halted. Work on the dormitory is due to start next year and its purpose is to house the extra US personnel who would be needed to safeguard any return of B-61 air-launched nuclear bombs to Lakenheath for the first time since 2007. Kate Hudson, CND’s general secretary, accused the US air force of ploughing ahead by “purportedly relying on planning rights that assume that the development won’t have significant environmental effects”, and so ignoring the risks that storing nuclear weapons in Suffolk would entail. US nuclear weapons were stationed in the UK throughout the cold war, provoking decades of protest. Cruise missiles were deployed at Greenham Common but were removed from the Berkshire site in 1991. Air-launched gravity bombs remained at Lakenheath until 16 years ago. After three decades of partial disarmament, nuclear states have been gradually upgrading and increasing the size of their arsenals. Two years ago, the UK said it would increase its stockpile of Trident warheads by 40% to 260, while the US is updating its gravity bombs to the B61-12, which has a maximum yield of 50 kilotonnes.
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