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    RAF Lakenheath in Suffolk, one of several air bases in the United Kingdom which was used by the United States Air Force to store nuclear weapons during...
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    Royal Air Force Lakenheath or RAF Lakenheath (IATA: LKZ, ICAO: EGUL) is a Royal Air Force station near the village of Lakenheath in Suffolk, England, UK...
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  • lists notable military accidents involving nuclear material. Civilian accidents are listed at List of civilian nuclear accidents. For a general discussion...
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    continued to store tactical nuclear weapons in the UK until 2008, when approximately 110 tactical B61s stored at RAF Lakenheath for deployment by USAF F-15E...
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    of military nuclear accidents RAF Lakenheath nuclear near-disasters – included another US military incident involving a Mark 28 nuclear bomb Notes Hayes...
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    9. Berkshire portal List of former Royal Air Force stations RAF Lakenheath near nuclear disasters  This article incorporates public domain material from...
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    B-52 crash (another B-52 nuclear crash, with a different bomb type) List of military nuclear accidents RAF Lakenheath near nuclear disasters – involved another...
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    Volkel Air Base (redirect from RAF Volkel)
    weapons present and RAF Lakenheath s bunkers were being modernized. It is believed that since the early 1960s, USAF nuclear weapons have been stored at...
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    thallium-204 Bismuth oxide: polonium-210 Thorium: uranium-233 Nuclear technology portal RAF Lakenheath nuclear near-disasters Richard Black (18 March 2011). "Fukushima...
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    Force's (USAF) Strategic Air Command (SAC) were based at RAF Lakenheath, RAF Marham, and RAF Sculthorpe. The increasing tension of the Cold War led to...
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    (Air Defence, 8x Rapier launch stations, defending RAF Mildenhall and RAF Lakenheath) 33 Wing, RAF Gütersloh, administrative control of West Germany-based...
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    May 2015), "WE.177 Carriage", www.nuclear-weapons.info, archived from the original on 2 June 2015 Eden, Paul (2016). RAF Squadrons; the story behind today's...
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  • Force officer stationed at RAF Lakenheath, where the Americans are secretly storing nuclear weapons. Plans for a nuclear device are found in Wilkinson's...
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    The anti-nuclear movement in the United Kingdom consists of groups who oppose nuclear technologies such as nuclear power and nuclear weapons. Many different...
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    part of the United States Air Force's 48th Fighter Wing located at RAF Lakenheath, Suffolk, United Kingdom. The 493rd FS operates the Lockheed Martin...
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  • History of U. S. Nuclear Weapons Accidents", www.lulu.com, 2007, Chapter 8, pp. 83–87. Maggelet, Michael H. and Oskins, James C., "RAF Lakenheath- Fact vs. Fiction"...
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    approximately 50 of America’s nuclear weapons stationed at Incirlik Air Base in Turkey, just 70 miles from the Syrian border. These weapons have zero utility on...
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    muddy that the Wellingtons of 20 OTU were temporarily relocated to RAF Lakenheath in Suffolk. The increased activity by 46 MU resulted in two satellite...
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  • Nuclear Weapons Accidents", Lulu Publishing, www.lulu.com, 2007, ISBN 978-1-4357-0361-2, chapter 29, pp. 149, 151. Gibson, James N. Nuclear Weapons of...
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  • This is a list of notable accidents and incidents involving military aircraft grouped by the year in which the accident or incident occurred. Not all...
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    warning radar stations. Strike Eagles were deployed to Aviano as well as RAF Lakenheath in the UK. In-theater, F-15Es conducted close air support (CAS) missions...
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    arrive at Lakenheath home". FlightGlobal. Archived from the original on 19 December 2021. Cenciotti, David (9 January 2015). "RAF Lakenheath was selected...
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    shelters; Ramstein Air Base has a vault but no nuclear weapons present and RAF Lakenheath s bunkers were being modernized. Flying and notable non-flying units...
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    Forces at Kadena AB in Japan and with the U.S. Air Forces in Europe at RAF Lakenheath in the United Kingdom. Other regular USAF F-15s are operated by ACC...
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    assumption of command". RAF Lakenheath. 7 July 2009. Retrieved 12 July 2017. "48th Mission Support Group". Royal Air Force Lakenheath. US Air Force. Retrieved...
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    British government in January 1956 approved the U-2's deployment from RAF Lakenheath. NACA announced that the USAF Air Weather Service would use a Lockheed-developed...
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    this story, in August 1980, the SAS parachuted into RAF Woodbridge to test the security at the nuclear site. The USAF had recently upgraded their radar and...
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  • crashes into a storage igloo at RAF Lakenheath in the United Kingdom. The crash spreads burning fuel over three Mark 6 nuclear bombs in the igloo, one of which...
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    United Kingdom where they were rotated through RAF Marham, RAF Waddington, RAF Scampton and RAF Lakenheath. The United States also provided military aid...
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    crashed at RAF Lakenheath killing its crew and causing a near radioactive incident when it hit a storage igloo containing three MK-6 nuclear weapons. Although...
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