US Withdraws Nukes from UK

The US has quietly withdrawn nuclear weapons from the UK, according to credible reports from the Federation of American Scientists. The withdrawal comes on the heels of an internal USAF investigation deeming several US nuclear stockpiles in Europe UNSAFE.
Links:

http://www.fas.org/blog/ssp/2008/06/us-nuclear-weapons-withdrawn-from-the-uni...

http://www.fas.org/blog/ssp/2008/06/usaf-report-%e2%80%9cmost%e2%80%9d-nuclea...

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[Thewizard22uk]

The UK is becoming more Islamic by the day, The last think the USA would want is Nukes in Muslims hands!

People in the UK are taking pay cuts,unemployment and even benefit cuts whilst the government increases foreign aid AND cuts defence spending.

[55ella2007k]

@Thewizard22uk The US has just approved a 2 billion dollar MILITARY aid package for Pakistan. Pakistan is a nuclear power. It is the bankers + international financiers which are running the show - we live in pseudo democracies at this point.

[Thewizard22uk]

@55ella2007k Here in the UK, The budget by the government is taking child benefit from a lot of mothers and inncreased foreign aid, Trying to make disabled people cut to unemployment benefit so getting less, Taxing going higher.

Then watching F1 last night and they say "Places like Pakistan,India all becoming rich countries so draw multi-million pouind sports to their countries.

We give aid and workers being taxed more here, India etc still getting richer!

[deadeye012006]

why the UK needs American Nukes on our land in the first place i don't no we have are own arsenal of Nukes and ballistic missiles .

[plumsforsale]

So the f*ck what? UK has its own nukes. Why should the US pay to keep their nukes over there in today's post-Cold War world?

[iGuyHD]

I would also like to point out that several times during this woman's tirade she states 'This is being kept secret'...am I the only one to appreciate the sheer absurdity of this statement? Discounting the notion that the report that she is reading from wasn't given to her in a brown paper bag down a side alley by a anonymous informant, isn't it more likely that she found it in the public domain? If it were a secret document, then it would not have been published on an official airforce website!

[iGuyHD]

I note with interest, as an example of the woman's spectacular standard of ignorance that she states 'Conscripts of these host nations' were being used to guard US nuclear weapons; The last time the UK had a conscripted element of its armed forces was in the second great war, and for her to insinuate, by her choice of title, that the UK military is incapable of guarding nuclear ordnance is, frankly, insulting.

[LTSocketz]

1990 was the last time a us solider/goverment was in directed to a mod base and that was back then, and he was not a guard he was like a chief.

[LTSocketz]

You? There not guarded by Us guard's,sorry, but the onley US guard's we ever had was in WW2 and you guy's.

[EmCSpiteri]

LTSocketz, who are you directing your comments to?