Pentagon Plans to Return Nukes to UK Amidst Russia Tensions

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49% : " The unredacted documents from the US Department of Defense's procurement database show the Pentagon has ordered equipment, including ballistic shields, for Lakenheath, and state that construction of a 144-bed housing facility for the U.S. Air Force soldiers will begin in June. Russian foreign ministry spokesman Maria Zakharova Zakharova said: 'In the context of the transition of the United States and NATO to an openly confrontational course of inflicting a 'strategic defeat' on Russia, this practice and its development force us to take compensating countermeasures to reliably protect the security interests of our country and its allies.' A Ministry of Defence spokesman for the UK said: 'It remains a longstanding UK and NATO policy to neither confirm nor deny the presence of nuclear weapons at a given location, ' according to the Telegraph report.

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