US still has 110 nuclear weapons in UK
`The 110 tactical nuclear bombs kept at the East Anglian base – the home of American F-15 strike jets – are among as many as 480 such weapons the US still deploys in Europe, says the Natural Resources Defence Council (NRDC), a private arms control and environmental group. [..]
The weapons are all free-fall, or “gravity” bombs. “The fact that the United States has some 480 nuclear weapons still stationed in Europe will come as a surprise to a lot of Europeans,” said Mr Kristensen.
He added: “The big question is: ‘Why are they still there more than a decade after the cold war ended?’ Neither the United States nor Nato has been able to articulate a credible mission for the weapons.”‘
