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Y la RAF desmanteló TODO su arsenal nuclear aunque claro, a lo mejor no te fías de la BBC.
Y la RAF desmanteló TODO su arsenal nuclear aunque claro, a lo mejor no te fías de la BBC.
RAF nuclear bombs to be scrapped
The government is to scrap a quarter of Britain's nuclear defence force on Tuesday to honour Labour's election promise on disarmament.
The Ministry of Defence said that all RAF freefall nuclear bombs will be removed at midnight on March 31, in line with the Labour pledge last June.
The withdrawal of the weapons will leave the RAF, the UK's first and main strike force for two decades, without a nuclear role.
The original pledge to remove the WE-177 bombs was made in 1995 by the previous Conservative Government.
But it said the nuclear weapons would be kept in place until the end of 1998.
However, the current Defence Secretary, George Robertson, is believed to have brought forward the withdrawal to mark Labour's commitment to reducing the nuclear stockpiles.
It is the first major weapons system to be scrapped by the Labour Government.
The destruction of the RAF's entire arsenal of nuclear weapons comes just weeks after Britain and the USA's negotiations with Iraq over its production of nuclear weapons.
The removal of the bombs will leave the UK with only the Royal Navy's Trident missile as the country's last line of defence.
Mr Robertson is also examining plans to take Trident off 24-hour patrols.
But the decision to withdraw the WE-177's will heighten the confusion over the government's nuclear strategy as it continues to buy more Trident submarine missiles.
At the end of last year, Britain paid £90m for seven American-made nuclear missiles.
End of an era
The WE-177 bombs were first introduced to service in 1966.
They are equipped to go beneath Tornado GR1 bombers and are dropped over their targets at low level.
The bombs were designed for smaller-scale conflicts and for tactical use, instead of the widespread destruction commonly associated with nuclear weapons.
At the height of the Cold War the RAF had one aircraft per squadron loaded with nuclear weapons in case the Soviet Union attacked.
The decommissioning process of the nuclear bombs is expected to take up to five years.