British Prime Minister Keir Starmer pursues the double objective of Use your rearme strategy To give a more than necessary impulse to the country’s economy, and at the same time demonstrate to the US president, Donald Trump, which London is his most faithful ally. The British government has announced a historical change in its nuclear deterrence, concentrated so far in the vanguard submarines, which transport trident ballistic missiles and are parked in Scotland waters. With the purchase of 12 F-35A combat fighters, capable of transporting and launching bombs and missiles with nuclear heads, the Labor Executive aspires to become a key actor in the new NATO that begins to be pergeated at this week’s meeting in The Hague.
This is the most relevant change in the United Kingdom’s arms policy since the end of the Cold War. Airplanes and nuclear weapons are of American manufacture, and suppose the return to British territory of atomic weapons.
“In an era of radical uncertainty we can no longer give peace for discounted. These aircraft will reinforce our army and serve to support [económicamente] To our regions through the defense industry, ”British Prime Minister is scheduled on Tuesday, as the Downing Street communication team has advanced.
The manufacture of the F-35 is carried out by the American company Lockheed Martin, although many of its most important components are produced in the United Kingdom. The fighters are capable of transporting conventional and nuclear armament, such as the B61-12 gravity bomb, with an explosive capacity three times higher than the one thrown over the Japanese town of Hiroshima. They will be parked at the Marham Air Base of the Royal Air Force (RAF, in English), in the town of Norfolk.
With the new plan, The United Kingdom joins NATO’s nuclear air mission, at a time of growing confrontation with Russia, and when the alliance is demanding from its partners an increase in its 5% defense budgets.
“The United Kingdom has provided its capacity for nuclear deterrence to NATO for decades, and I give an effusive welcome to the announcement that it will now add to the nuclear mission of the alliance with the acquisition of the F-35,” celebrated the secretary general of the Atlantist organization, Mark Rutte.
Greater nuclear capacity
The British government had already announced, in early June, through the strategic defense evaluation, Your will to build a new generation of nuclear submarines. Will be 12 in total. In the words of the Prime Minister, it was about turning the United Kingdom into a country “in the process of preparation for war.”
The United Kingdom currently has a fleet of nine nuclear submarines, which constantly patrol the waters with a maximum secret with respect to its location and constitute the fundamental bulk of British nuclear deterrence.
Starmer has announced the construction, before the next decade ends, of a dozen SSN-Aukus submarines, As part of the Aukus program in which the United Kingdom participates with Australia and the United States. This alliance is at the center of an effort to rearm by London that also includes the newly signed collaboration agreement on defense with the EU.
The new British military doctrine states that the country “needs to prepare for the possibility of suffering attacks in its own territory,” and directly points to the Russian government of Vladimir Putin.
With the exception of the Submarine program, the United Kingdom had stopped storing nuclear weapons since 2008, when the last bombs left the Lakenheath Air Base. With the arrival of the new material announced by Starmer, the country will be incorporated into the Dual Air Capacity NATO program (DCA), the Alianza Nuclear Dysuasoria Strategy under the US umbrella. The armament, as established by the non -proliferation treaty, remains under control of the United States, and cannot be assigned to any other country.
