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US nuclear weapons could be sited in RAF Lakenheath in spring, CND protest hears
US nuclear weapons could be sited at RAF Lakenheath as early as spring, the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) has warned.
The CND’s new general secretary Sophie Bolt told dozens of protesters outside the Suffolk airbase on Saturday: “We are very very concerned about the threat of a nuclear escalation between nuclear-armed Nato and nuclear-armed Russia.
“What’s happening here at this base is absolutely central to this growing nuclear threat in eastern Europe.
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