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LONDON-The United States has quietly withdrawn its last nuclear weapons from Britain after more than half a century, a watchdog said on Thursday.Anti-nuclear campaigners welcomed the apparent end of an era, brought about by changes in warfare and world politics rather than their dogged protests over the decades.The Federation of American Scientists, which studies the U.S. nuclear arsenal, said in a report that Washington had removed its last atomic bombs from the British Royal Air Force base at Lakenheath, where they had been stationed since 1954.The withdrawal has not been announced officially, but was confirmed by several sources, the report's author, nuclear weapons expert Hans Kristensen, wrote.Britain's Ministry of Defense declined to comment. A U.S. air force spokeswoman at the base in Britain said Washington's policy was not to comment on the location of nuclear weapons.If true, the withdrawal means U.S. nuclear bombs in Europe are kept at just six bases-mainly at Turkey's Incirlik air base and Aviano in Italy, but also in Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands, Kristensen wrote.Bombs dropped from planes stationed at air bases play a much smaller role in the U.S. nuclear arsenal than they once did, having mostly been replaced by warheads attached to missiles.But U.S. nuclear weapons have long made Lakenheath in southeast England a magnet for protests, which peaked in the 1980s when many Europeans feared obliteration in a nuclear war between the West and the Soviet Union.To read more go to:
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