CND calls for transparency on ‘nuclear weapons’ to RAF Lakenheath

Campaigners have called for government “transparency” amid reports the United States Air Force has moved nuclear weapons to a Suffolk airbase.

Flight data showed a specialist C-17A Globemaster transporter – capable of carrying extra heavy loads – travelling more than 4,400 miles (8,200km) from New Mexico in the United States to RAF Lakenheath last week.

The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) said Prime Minister Keir Starmer should “come clean” and make a formal statement about the potential deployment.

Neither the United States Air Force (USAF) or the Ministry of Defence comments on nuclear weapons deployments.