US planning to station nukes in UK amid growing threat from Russia: Report

The US is planning to station nuclear weapons in the UK for the first time in 15 years amid growing fears of a war with Russia, The Telegraph reported, citing documents from the Pentagon. Under the proposal, the nuclear warheads are said to possess a destructive capacity thrice that of the bomb dropped on Hiroshima in 1945 and would be stationed at RAF Lakenheath in Suffolk.

In 2008, the US removed its nuclear missiles from the UK after it felt that the Cold War threat from Russia had receded. Pentagon documents seen by The Telegraph showed procurement contracts for a new nuclear weapons facility at the Lakenheath airbase.

The development came amid warnings of a potential war between Russia and countries belonging to Nato (North Atlantic Treaty Organisation), of which the UK is a bloc member.