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Thursday, July 24, 2025Nukes On The Move From ABQ's KAFB To England; A Grim Reminder That City Is At Center Of International Uncertainity The U.S. military has moved nuclear weapons to British soil for the first time in close to two decades, new analysis indicates. Open-source analysts identified an aircraft taking off from Kirtland Air Force Base in Albuquerque bound for the United Kingdom's Royal Air Force (RAF) base at Lakenheath, in the east of England. Kirtland is the headquarters of the US Airforce Nuclear Weapons Center, a main storage site for nuclear weapons. . . Flight tracking data shows that a C-17 cargo plane departed from Albuquerque for a flight of just over 10 hours to Lakenheath on July 16 and left the U.K. two days later. "It looks like it went to England, dropped off those weapons and then it went back to regular operations in the U.S.," William Alberque, a former head of NATO's nuclear non-proliferation center, told Britain's The Times. Sidharth Kaushal, a senior research fellow with the British think tank, the Royal United Services Institute, told The Times that the C-17 flight "could be the transport of B61s for potential use on RAF F-35As. "It represents a move towards the use of tactical nuclear weapons. It reintroduces a bit of flexibility in terms of how nuclear weapons are used." Public discussion of any form of nuclear war has traditionally been understated but that has changed in this new era of international uncertainty. The KAFB mission puts ABQ at the center of that uncertainty. Still. . .have a nice day. We're off to visit the National Museum of Nuclear Science and History in the far ABQ NE Heights--while it's still there. THE BOTTOM LINES Senate Republicans come with a correction made by Senate Minority Leader Bill Sharer regarding school voucher bill SB286. Sharer said the bill did not receive a hearing. The R's now say the bill did get a committee hearing but received "minimal consideration" and was tabled. This is the Home of New Mexico Politics. |
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